Min Sun-Joon, Danishefsky Samuel J
Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Tetrahedron Lett. 2008 May 19;49(21):3496-3499. doi: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2008.03.101.
A procedure has been developed for the construction of 7,5-fused ring systems through ring expansion of silyl enol ethers. This method has been applied to the synthesis of an intermediate en route to the natural product, tricholomalide A.