Synthesis of Methyl Dihydrojasmonate. Ester Directed Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation

Abstract
The distinguished organoleptic properties of the jasmonoids have helped foment development of synthetic routes.1 In one of our recent approaches to methyl dihydrojasmonate (1) we assimulated and integrated the acid-catalyzed rearrangement process2 of cyclopentadiene-acrylic acid adducts into our scheme.