Gebauer Julian, Arseniyadis Stellios, Cossy Janine
Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, ESPCI, CNRS, 10 rue Vauquelin, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Org Lett. 2007 Aug 16;9(17):3425-7. doi: 10.1021/ol701459j. Epub 2007 Jul 18.
A short and convergent synthesis of the myxobacterial antibiotic melithiazole C is described featuring a highly E-selective cross-metathesis as the key step.