JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, cilt.58, sa.8, ss.2196-2200, 1993 (SCI-Expanded)
Sodium periodate is a better reagent than sodium bismuthate, manganese dioxide, or lead tetraacetate for the cleavage of unsaturated alpha-ketols and affords omega-oxo-alpha,beta-unsaturated acids in good yield. The combination of this cleavage reaction and a rhodium(I)-mediated decarbonylation of omega-oxo-alpha,beta-unsaturated esters derived from polycyclic systems provided an enantioselective synthesis of cyclic systems bearing contiguous quaternary centers where one of the centers possessed gem-dimethyl groups.