Abstract

This first part of this article focuses on natural products bearing a bicyclo[3.2.0]heptane skeleton. The second part deals with the synthesis of such natural products by focusing on the formation of the bicycloheptane substructure.

Keywords: Bicycloheptane, photochemical [2+2] cycloaddition, Lewis acid catalyzed [2+2] cycloadditon, ntramolecular Diels Alder, Pauson Khand