A rhodium carbene cyclization-cycloaddition cascade strategy toward the pseudolaric acids.

A rhodium carbene intramolecular cyclization-cycloaddition cascade was employed as the key reaction in the synthesis of the nucleus of the cytotoxic diterpenoids pseudolaric acids A and B.

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