Y. D. Zhang, W. Ren, Y. Lan, Q. Xiao, K. Wang, J. Xu, J. H. Chen*, Z. Yang*
Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 665.
The 7−8 bicyclic ring system of micrandilactone A (1) with the required stereochemistry and functional groups was constructed by a Bu3Al-promoted Claisen rearrangement. Computational studies indicated that the exocyclic vinyl ether undergoes a [3,3] sigmatropic process via a chairlike transition state to afford exclusively the Z-double bond in the newly generated 8-membered ring with a high level of chirality transfer.
