The first racemic syntheses of agelasimines-A and -B, adenine-related bicyclic diterpenoids from the marine sponge Agelas mauritiana, have been accomplished by means of routes through the diol 10 as a key intermediate for their common diterpene portion. As a result, their structures and relative stereochemistries have been unequivocally established to be those represented by formulas (±)- 1a and (±)- 2a, respectively.
Read full abstract