Stereocontrolled Carbocyclic Construction: (-)-Mintlactone (Bates), (-)-Gleenol (Kobayashi), (-)-Vibralactone
C (Snider) Nigel S. Simpkins, now at the University of Birmingham, found (Chem. Commun. 2008, 5390. DOI: 10.1039/b810441g) that the prochiral cyclopropane amide 1 could be deprotonated to give, after…