Secondary sugar allyltin derivatives of the d-series: Sug-CH(SnBu
3)-CH
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CH
2 (obtained in an S
N2′ reaction of the corresponding primary allylic mesylates with Bu
3SnCu) with the
S-configuration at the stereogenic center bearing the -SnBu
3 group decompose at 140°C to dienoaldehydes: CH
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CH-CH
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CH-[(CHOR)
3]-CHO with the
cis geometry across the internal double bond. Such aldehydes react with the stabilized Wittig reagents to afford trienes, cyclization of which provides highly oxygenated enantiomerically pure
cis-bicyclo[4.3.0]nonenes. This methodology is complementary to that recently proposed by us leading to such bicyclic systems, but with the
trans junction between the five- and six-membered rings.