摘要
A retro-ene reaction that generates the parent aldehyde and a sigmatropic rearrangement are involved in the In(OTf) 3 -catalyzed conversion of homoallylic alcohols 1 into the thermodynamically favored regioisomers 2. This method can be used for the stereocontrolled synthesis of linear homoallylic 22α-sterols from their readily accessible branched 22β isomers.