A Total Synthesis of Ingenol Utilized the Corey-Posner/Whitesides-House Coupling Reaction

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Short Answer

A total synthesis of ingenol utilized the Corey-Posner/Whitesides-House coupling reaction in a key C-C bond forming step (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 9726). Propose a reagent to perform this transformation.

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