ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of Two Diastereoisomers of the A/B Fragment of Ciguatoxin.
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The key-steps in the synthesis of the two title compounds (IX) and (XI) is the coupling of the hexose-derived silylacetylene (II) with pentose derivatives and the cationic cyclization and reductive decomplexation of the intermediate acetylene biscobalthexacarbonyl complex (cf. (VIII)).