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Pharmaceutically and structurally important methanobenzo[7]annulenes were synthesized in very good yields with excellent enantio- and diastereoselectivities through an unprecedented organocatalytic formal [3+2] cycloaddition from readily available 2-alkyl-3-hydroxynaphthalene-1,4-diones and alkyl vinyl ketones.
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