Synfacts 2010(2): 0135-0135  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1219024
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
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Synthesis of Briarellins E and F

Contributor(s): Philip Kocienski
O. Corminboeuf, L. E. Overman*, L. D. Pennington
University of California, Irvine, USA
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Publication History

Publication Date:
21 January 2010 (online)

Significance

The synthesis of briarellins E and F featured a Prins-pinacol rearrangement for ­assembling the oxacyclic framework (C + DE) and an intramolecular Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi reaction to construct the oxacyclononane ring.