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(+)-Mintlactone, a bicyclic monoterpene natural product, has been efficiently assembled from (-)-citronellol in three steps. The synthesis features nitrous acid-induced formal isopropylidene "demethanation" and the molybdenum-mediated intramolecular hetero-Pauson-Khand reaction.
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