Dongjoo Lee and co-workers at Dankook University have reported in Tetrahedron on the synthesis of tormesol. The seven membered ring was acquired from a Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction.
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Tormesol via Wittig
Posted by naturalproductman on November 21, 2011
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Exocyclic Methylenes
Posted by naturalproductman on November 28, 2010
Tomasz Janecki and co-workers have published in Synlett on a nice way to make subsituted 3-methylidene-chroman-2-ones (ie: exocyclic methylenes) via 1,4-Grignard addition folowed by Wittig.
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