Author's Organization：/ Institute of Applied Microbiology, The University of Tokyo:(Present address)Pharmaceutical Institute, Tohoku University / Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, The University of Tokyo
Cyclopropylarbinyl alcohols with marasmane and isomarasmane carbon skeletons (compounds 21 and 26) were synthesized from the azo compound 14 by a route involving an intramolecular carbene insertion reaction. The major product 21 was found to have an isomarasmane type stereostructure by X-ray crystallographic analysis of compound 23.
