“…With these predictive rules established, chemists continued to pursue anti-Bredt systems, 1) to further interrogate the proposed rules, 2) to use such systems as versatile synthetic intermediates, [12,13] and, albeit to a much lesser extent, 3) to evaluate them in the context of natural product structures. [12,14] It was this latter point that overlapped with our fascination with constructing natural products that contained bridged bicyclic moieties (that is, bicyclo[m.n.o]). [15] Furthermore, and perhaps even more importantly, we had recently isolated a novel natural product that contained a bridgehead double bond, and therefore wanted to better understand the application of Bredts rule to natural product systems.…”