title: Enantioselective synthesis of (+)-majusculone.
abstract: The first enantioselective synthesis of a chamigrane sesquiterpene, (+)-majusculone, has been completed. The quaternary center was generated asymmetrically by alkylidene carbene insertion, with retention of absolute configuration, from a diastereomerically pure ketal.
authors: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA. taberdf@udel.edu
authors: Douglass F
authors: DF
authors: Taber
authors: M Inthikhab
authors: MI
authors: Sikkander
authors: Pierre H
authors: PH
authors: Storck
mesh_terms: D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D015394:Molecular Structure; D012717:Sesquiterpenes / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: C521412:(+)-majusculone; D012717:Sesquiterpenes