Synthetic approaches to pseudopterosin G aglycone dimethyl ether

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Jean-Yves LeBrazidec, Philip J. Kocienski, Joseph D. Connolly and Kenneth W. Muir


Abstract

Three successive reactions of a dimethoxy arene with allylic cation equivalents were used to convert 2,3-dimethoxy-4-methyl-1-iodobenzene to the hexahydro-1H-phenalene system of the potent marine antiinflammatory pseudopterosins G–J.


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