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Pushing the frontiers of olefin metathesis: As the coleophomones B (1) and C (2) differ only in the configuration of the Δ16,17 double bond, ring-closing metathesis was chosen as the method for their construction following an initially convergent route that diverges at a late stage.
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Nicolaou et al. (2002) studied this question.
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