American Chemical Society, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1(77), p. 772-774, 2011
DOI: 10.1021/jo2021407
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We report the first enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-scuteflorin A in 14% overall yield, employing a chiral iminium salt to effect an organocatalytic asymmetric epoxidation of xanthyletin in >99% ee as the key step.