Kathiresan Krishnan

Regiocontrol in the cyclopropane ring cleavage of tricyclo[4.4.0.01,3]decanes to hydrindane and decalin systems

Lithium-liquid ammonia reduction of the cyclopropyl β-ketoester

A strategy to 3-acyl-4-methyl furans. Synthesis of (±)-evodone

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Stereospecific synthesis of thaps-7(15)-ene and thaps-6-ene, probable biogenetic precursors of thapsanes

furnished a 1:1 mixture of hydrindane and decalin systems

Total synthese of (±)-cyclolaurene, (±)-epicylolaurene and (±)-β-cuparenones

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Isomerisation of 1-methylene-2-methyl-2-(2-oxopropyl)-cyclohexanes to 2-methylene-1-methyl-1-(2-oxopropyl)-cyclohexanes by ene and retro-ene reaction

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Synthesis of (±)-thaps-7(15)-ene and (±)-thaps-6-enes

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First total synthesis of (±)-myltayl-4(12)-ene and single-crystal X-ray structure of exo-12-normyltaylan-4-yl 4-nitrobenzoate

. Whereas under the same conditions the ketones

Acid-catalysed thermal rearrangement of γ,δ-unsaturated ketones

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Isomerisation of 4-aryl-4-methylhex-5-en-2-ones to 5-aryl-4-methylhex-5-en-2-ones by an intramolecular ene-retro ene reaction sequence

and

First total synthesis of a natural thapsane

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