J. Murry
1969
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Tetrahedron Letters
Abstract
TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF CYCLOSATIVENE John E. MC Murr'y Division of Natural Sciences, University o.f California Santa Cruz, California 95060 (Received in USA 17 October 1968; receih in u( for publication 29 November 1968) Longifolene, l_, occupies a most interesting place in sesquiterpene chemistry (1) both because of the uniqueness of its structure and because of the complexity of its chemistry. Much of this remarkable chemistry which longifolene exhibits is due to its compact tricyclic skeleton which allows for a number of interesting transannular reactions (2). For example (3) when longifolene is heated with cupric acetate in acetic acid, two isomeric hydrocarbons, longicyclene, 2, (4) (29%), and isolongifolene, 3, (15%), are obtained along with much recovered starting material (51%).