Kenichi Kobayashi, Iwao Okamoto, Nobuyoshi Morita, Tamiko Kiyotani and Osamu Tamura
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011,9, 5825-5832
DOI:
10.1039/C1OB05612C,
Paper
The first total synthesis of the proposed structure of phaeosphaeride A has been achieved via six-membered-ring formation by means of an intramolecular vinyl-anion aldol reaction as the key step. This synthesis suggests a revised configurational assignment for phaeosphaeride A.
