Natural Product Synthesis Using Grubbs Metathesis: Lasubine II, Ingenol, and Ophirin B
Practitioners of total synthesis have been pushing the limits of Grubbs metathesis. Siegfried Blechert of the Technisches Universität, Berlin, envisioned (Tetrahedron 2004, 60, 9629.DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2004.06.145)that Grubbs metathesis of 1 could…