The key step in the total synthesis of sesquicillin (3) is a stereoselective Claisen rearrangement of 1 to afford 2. The synthesis also features an efficient sequence to install an α-pyrone moiety in a hindered environment; TBS = tert-butyldimethylsilyl.
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Zhang et al. (2002) studied this question.