Tormesol via Wittig
Posted by naturalproductman on November 21, 2011
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.

Tetrahedron paper
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