The specifics: A synthesis of the sesquiterpenoid antibiotic (+)-hongoquercin A using sequential site-specific CH methylation and oxidation reactions is described. A key advancement toward this goal was the development of a ligand-accelerated CH methylation reaction, and enabled the generation of a library of eight structurally diverse analogues.
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Rosen et al. (2013) studied this question.