Diels-Alder Cycloaddition: δ-Cadinol (Schulz), KB343 (Baran), Penostatin C (Chen), Senopodine E (Ishikawa), Vermisporin (Lei), Kibdelomycin (Schobert)
Stefan Schulz of the Technische Universität Braunschweig updated the classic intramolecular Diels-Alder cycloaddition of the triene 1 to the ketone 2, readily convertible to δ-cadinol (3), by preparing 1 via…