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Alkyne to caged compound

Posted by naturalproductman on June 9, 2011

Qi-Dong You and co-workers from China Pharmaceutical University have reported in Tetrahedron on a diyne compound undergoing a hydrogenation/Claisen/Diels-Alder cascade to afford the caged carbon skeleton of gaudichaudione A and isomorellin.

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Tetrahedron paper

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