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[reaction: see text] An efficient method has been developed for the stereocontrolled construction of polycyclic and spirocyclic compounds, including the spirocyclic core of the antitumor agent fredericamycin A. The strategy involves a one-pot aldol addition/Brook rearrangement/cyclization sequence beginning from arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes and can formally be described as a [3 + 2] annulation.
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