%0 Journal Article %T Enantioselective Synthesis of the C(1)-C(6?) Subunit of Zaragozic Acid C %A Carreira Erick M. %A Ledford Brian E. %J Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society %D 1998 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Qu¨Şmica, SBQ %X Preparation of the C(1)-C(6?) subunit of Zaragozic acid C is described. The C(5?) methyl-bearing stereocenter is installed by rapid, regioselective opening of a phenylcyclopropyl carbinol with Pearlman?s catalyst (1 atm H2) in 2% triflic acid/methanol. %K enantioselective synthesis %K Zaragozic acid %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-50531998000400014