Mukaiyama-type, eight-membered ring closure: Access to a tricyclic system related to taxanes

Abstract Addition of Me2CuLi, with in situ trapping by TMSCl, to Hagemann's ester derivative 13, furnished silyl enol ether 14. Mukaiyama-type cyclization of the latter compound gave the tricyclic derivative 15, structurally related to the taxane core.