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organic compounds
A remarkable asymmetric induction was observed in the one-pot condensation reaction of (S)-(-)-perillaldehyde with 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-2-pyrone in the presence of L-proline which provided the title compound, C16H18O3, a tricyclic pyrone, as a single diastereomer in 78% yield. As the configuration of the cyclohexane C atom holding the isopropenyl group is the same as that in the (S)-aldehyde substrate, the total absolute stereochemistry could be elucidated from its X-ray structure. The cyclohexane ring has a chair conformation in which the juncture H atom (H5a) is axially oriented and the isopropenyl substituent is equatorial.