%0 Journal Article %T Towards the total synthesis of Stawamycin. Synthesis of C11-C21 fragment %A Dias %A Luiz C. %A Jardim %A Luciana S. A. %A Ferreira %A Andrea A. %A Soarez %A Helena U. %J Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society %D 2001 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Qu¨Şmica, SBQ %R 10.1590/S0103-50532001000400003 %X the carbocyclic (c11-c21) fragment of stawamycin has been prepared by a sequence involving 11 steps (10% overall yield) from methyl (r)-(-)-3-hydroxy-2-methylpropionate. key steps are pd-catalyzed stille coupling reaction between a vinyl iodide and a vinylstannane followed by an intramolecular diels-alder cycloaddition reaction to afford the desired adduct as the major isomer together with three other possible adducts in 78% overall yield. %K intramolecular diels-alder reaction %K stille coupling %K herpes virus inhibitor. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-50532001000400003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en