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A highly stereoselective synthesis of the racemic oxatetracyclic core of platensimycin has been accomplished from a known bicyclic epoxy lactone by an 11-step sequence that involves a Diels-Alder cyclcoaddition to construct its cis-decalenone structural motif with complete regio- and stereoselectivity and a ring-closing metathesis to establish its whole carbon framework.
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