Oxacycle synthesis via radical cyclization of β-alkoxyacrylates*
Eun Lee
Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea
Abstract: Oxolane and oxane units in oxacyclic natural products were prepared via radical cyclization reaction of β-alkoxyacrylates, β-alkoxymethacrylates, and β-alkoxyvinyl ketones.
Keywords: β-Alkoxyacrylates; ambruticin; pamamycin-607; lasonolide A; SCH 351448; radical cyclization.
*Paper based on a presentation at the 7th IUPAC International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry (ICHAC-7), Shanghai, China, 21-25 August 2004. Other presentations are published in this issue, pp. 1985-2132.