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Pyrrocidine progress

Posted by naturalproductman on September 7, 2012

Susumu Kobayashi and co-workers at RIKADAI have reported in Organic Letters on their synthesis of the decahydrofluorene core of pyrrocidine via an intermolecular Diels-Alder.

decahydrofluorene

OL paper

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