a Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India b School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, India
Abstract:
A conceptually new Diels-Alder approach, involving a diene moiety grafted on a preformed epoxyquinone platform and a 4-hydroxy-indenone as the dienophile, delivers the pentacyclic framework of fluostatin C in one key step.