A facile construction of the tricyclic 5-7-6 scaffold of fungi-derived diterpenoids. The first total synthesis of (±)-heptemerone G and a new approach to Danishefsky’s intermediate for a guanacastepene A synthesis

The first total synthesis of (±)-heptemerone G, a diterpenoid metabolite of a submerged culture Coprinus heptemerus, and a new approach to an advanced intermediate for a synthesis of guanacastepene A are reported.