Valerie Boissel, Nigel S Simpkins, Gurdip Bhalay, Alexander J Blake, William Lewis
School of Chemistry, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK NG7 2RD.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 2009 Mar 21Bridgehead metallation is possible in a ketone having the welwistatin skeleton, and this facilitates installation of the isothiocyanate function present in the natural product, and also enables synthesis of remarkable bridgehead alkenes.
Valerie Boissel, Nigel S Simpkins, Gurdip Bhalay, Alexander J Blake, William Lewis. Bridgehead enolates and bridgehead alkenes in a welwistatin model series. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England). 2009 Mar 21(11):1398-400
PMID: 19259600
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