Acid-Catalyzed Reactions of Sarcophytoxide, a Marine Cembranoid: An Apparently Enantio-Directive Reaction, Unusual Products and Stereochemical Reconsideration of Epoxide–Ketone Rearrangement
Perchloric acid treatment of sarcophytoxide, a marine cembranoid possessing an epoxide, brought about epoxide–ketone rearrangement affording ketones. When the reaction time was long (22 h), a minor...