Banwell M G, McRae K J
Research School of Chemistry, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
Org Lett. 2000 Nov 16;2(23):3583-6. doi: 10.1021/ol006457v.
The enantiomerically pure cis-1,2-dihydrocatechol 2, which is obtained by microbial oxidation of chlorobenzene, has been converted, via intermediate 3, into the natural product (+)-aspicilin (1).