An efficient, general, and fully stereocontrolled synthesis of
eremophilane-type compounds is disclosed. The approach features
a highly diastereoselective Diels-Alder/aldol
sequence to give a common intermediate, which is subsequently exploited
to produce (±)-petasitolone and (±)-fukinone in
a short sequence.
eremophilane - Diels-Alder reactions - aldol
reactions - condensation