Abstract
Treatment of acrolein dimer sequentially with three molar equivalents of ethyllithium and excess methyl iodide followed by aqueous acidic workup provides brevicomin in 69% yield as a 4:1 mixture of endo and exo isomers; a modification allows preparation of a mixture richer in the exo-isomer.
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