15,16-Epoxy-16-(3-trimethylsiloxybuta-1,3-dien-1-yl)labdanoids were synthesized, and their reactions with cyclic dienophiles (1,4-benzoquinone, 1,4-toluquinone, 2-bromo-6-methyl-1,4-benzoquinone, and N-methylmaleimide) were studied. The reactions with unsymmetrically substituted benzoquinones were not selective. Methods for the preparation of hybrid compounds containing furan diterpenoid and substituted naphthoquinone, octahydroisoindoletrione, or hexahydroisoindoledione fragments were proposed. * For communication XXVII, see [1]. Lambertianic acid (I) is a plant furanoditerpenoid produced by the Siberian pine Pinus sibirica R. Mayr.; it is used for the preparation of a number of other natural compounds [2, 3], including phlomisoic acid (II). The latter is formed as a result of enzymatic hydrolysis of glycosides in medicinal plants of the Lamiaceae family, Phlomis sp. and Eremostachys sp. [4].We previously reported on modification of the furan ring in I and II, which afforded pharmacologically important compounds exhibiting analgesic activity [5] and cytotoxicity against CEM-13, MT-4, and U-937 model tumor cells [6]; they also turned out to regulate cytostatic polychemotherapy [7]. In the present article we describe the synthesis of furanolabdanoid derivatives having an additional pharmacophoric fragment (naphthoquinone or isoindoledione) on C 16 . These compounds were synthesized by DielsAlder reactions of 16-(3-trimethylsiloxybuta-1,3-dien-1-yl)-substituted furanolabdanoids with benzoquinones and N-methylmaleimide. It should be noted that model 1-furyl-3-trimethylsiloxybuta-1,3-dienes were successfully used previously in the synthesis of a series of pharmacologically important compounds [8]. New optically active labdanoid trimethylsiloxybutadienes were obtained by silylation of the corresponding ketones synthesized by condensation of 16-formylphlomisoic acid methyl ester (III) [9] with acetone and ethyl acetoacetate.Aldol-type condensation of aldehyde III with acetone gave 94% of ketone IV, whereas Knoevenagel condensation of III with ethyl acetoacetate in the presence of piperidine and acetic acid required prolonged heating (21 h under reflux) and led to the formation of a mixture of Z/E-isomeric keto esters V and VI at a ratio of 1.3 : 1 (according to the NMR data, yield 89%; Scheme 1). When the reaction was carried out in the presence of 0.1 equiv of (+)-pseudoephedrine or L-proline [10], it was possible to use a smaller amount of ethyl acetoacetate, and the reaction time was shortened to 8 h. In this case, compounds V and VI were isolated in an overall yield of 94% (after purification by column chromatography). The ratio of compounds V and VI changed insignificantly (from 1 : 1 to 1.5 : 1), depending on the catalyst.Ketone IV reacted with excess chlorotrimethylsilane in acetonitrile in the presence of anhydrous zinc chloride and triethylamine under argon to produce 16-(3-trimethylsiloxybuta-1,3-dien-1-yl) derivative VII as an oily substance (yield 92%, Scheme 2). Compound VII was stable under argon; on expo...