A multicomponent coupling strategy suitable for the synthesis of the triene component of the oxazolomycin antibiotics†
Abstract
Concise and versatile routes suitable for the synthesis of three geometric isomers of an analogue of the left hand triene sub-unit of oxazolomycin are reported. A strategy based upon a key Heck reaction was unsuccessful, and this was traced to a combination of steric encumbrance and electronic deactivation of the