Drutu I, Krygowski E S, Wood J L
Department of Chemistry, Yale University, Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, P.O. Box 208107, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, USA.
J Org Chem. 2001 Oct 19;66(21):7025-9. doi: 10.1021/jo015741c.
We describe a short, enantioselective synthesis of the naturally occurring pyrrolizidine alkaloid (+)-latifoline (1) employing a tandem [3,3] sigmatropic rearrangement/[1,2] allyl shift as a key step in constructing (+)-latifolic acid (4).