An expedient approach to the total synthesis of (+)-5-epi-eudesm-4(15)-ene-1β,6β-diol†
Abstract
The first total synthesis of (+)-5-epi-eudesm-4(15)-ene-1β,6β-diol has been achieved in 12 steps starting from the known (−)-cis-piperitol and by using a chelation controlled glycolate enolate Ireland–