This paper describes the first total synthesis of bioactive lippialactone and C9-epi-lippialactone adopting Keck asymmetric allylation/Barbier allylation and olefin cross-metathesis
as the key steps.
Key words
lippialactone - 6-substituted α,β-unsaturated δ-lactones -
l-threonine - Keck allylation - Barbier allylation - cross-metathesis