Of ethyl cyclopropylideneacetate

The reactivity of ethyl cyclopropylideneacetate (52b) has been exploited by Spitzner and Sawitzki in a new (formal) total synthesis of the diterpene ( + )-isoeremolactone 80 (Scheme 16) [25]. The key step of the synthesis is the addition of the enantiomerically pure dienolate 78 to the reactive acrylate 52b, to give a single isomer 79 in 92% yield. 

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