Mechanistic points of interest in the - -reiswigin A synthesis

Kashman, S. Hirsh, F. Koehn and S. Cross, 1987, Tetrahedron Lett., 28, 5461 (b) For the first total synthesis of (-)-reiswigin A, which established its relative and absolute stereochemistry, see B.B. Snider and K. Yang, 1989, Tetrahedron Lett., 30, 2465 and B.B. Snider and K. Yang, 1990, J. Org. Chem., 55, 4392. 

For another elegant example of an acyclic Claisen condensation being applied in an enantiospecific synthesis of prostaglandin F2a, see G. Stork, T. Takahashi, I. Kawamoto and T. Suzuki, 1978, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 100, 8272. 

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