Tetrahedron
Volume 50, Issue 31, 1994, Pages 9229-9254
Polyene cascade cyclizations mediated by BF3·CH3NO2. an unusually efficient method for the direct, stereospecific synthesis of polycyclic intermediates via cationic initiation at non-functionalized 3° alkenes. An application to the total synthesis of (±)-taxodione.
Scott R. Harring and Tom Livinghouse
- DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0040-4020(01)85502-2