[reaction: see text] A direct synthesis of the alpha-hydroxyaldehyde exo-5, a precursor of the exo-spirotetronate subunit of the quartromicins, was achieved through an exo-selective Lewis acid-catalyzed Diels-Alder reaction of dienophile 12a and diene 1.
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