In recent years the crossed aldol condensation has becocome a useful synthetic method2, however its use for natural product syntheses has been limited to a few cases3. In this paper we wish to describe the preparation of a number of terpenes based in this reaction, which because of its simplicity represent convenient synthesis for these compounds.
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Park et al. (1977) studied this question.
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