a School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK b Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Ministry of Education of China, School of Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
Abstract:
Samarium(II) diiodide mediated intramolecular cyclisation of mixed enone-enoate substrates in THF/MeOH is described. Spirocyclic ethers are obtained, and the stereodefined preparation of 1-oxaspiro[4.4]nonan-7-one products is included.