Other Methods for Carbocyclic Construction: COTC (Buda), Brussonol (Jin/Qiu), Lingzhiol (Luo/Qin), Melicolone A (Martin), Macfarlandin C (Overman),
Mitrephorone A (Carreira) The crotonate ester COTC (3), an inhibitor of alkaline phosphodiesterase isolated from a soil Streptomyces, had cytotoxic and cancerostatic activity. Szymon Buda of Jagiellonian University prepared the…