Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta 700 032, India
Abstract:
A stereocontrolled total synthesis of (±)-norzizanone 1 has been efficiently accomplished involving base-induced rearrangement of the mesylate 17 as the key step. Aryl participated intramolecular cyclisation of the bromophenol 11 provided the tricyclic dienone 12, which was stereoselectively converted into the mesylate 17.