Vishnumaya Bisai, Richmond Sarpong
May 4, 2010
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Abstract
A methoxypyridine serves as a masked pyridone in a concise synthesis of the Lycopodium alkaloid lycoposerramine R, which has been prepared for the first time. The key step of the synthesis is the use of an Eschenmoser Claisen rearrangement to forge a key quaternary carbon center.