A reaction sequence made up of a Sakurai reaction, ketene cyclization, sulfur-directed Baeyer-Villiger reaction, and tandem lactone cleavage/isomerization provided the fully functionalized core of the CP compounds. Key steps were the methanolysis of 1, which leads via 2 to the CP precursor 3.
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Meng et al. (1999) studied this question.