Stereocontrolled formation of highly substituted cis-decalins via INOC annulation. An access to the branimycin core

Enev, Valentin S.; Drescher, Martina; Mulzer, Johann.   

Tetrahedron  (2007),  63(26),  5930-5939.

Quinic acid was used as a chiral scaffold for elaborating the highly substituted cis-decalin core system of branimycin via an Eschenmoser–Ireland rearrangement-INOC annulation sequence.