TY - JOUR ID - pittir19789 UR - http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/19789/ IS - 16 A1 - Wakefield, B A1 - Halter, RJ A1 - Wipf, P Y1 - 2007/08/02/ N2 - The synthesis of a thiophene-containing analogue of halenaquinone was realized. Key steps include an alkynyl ketone-benzocyclobutane Diels-Alder reaction to construct the C,D-ring naphthalene subunit, a Heck cyclization to form the quaternary carbon, and a ring closing metathesis to add the A-ring. © 2007 American Chemical Society. JF - Organic Letters VL - 9 SN - 1523-7060 TI - Synthesis of (±)-thiohalenaquinone by iterative metalations of thiophene SP - 3121 AV - public EP - 3124 ER -