- Total Synthesis of Enantiopure Chabrolonaphthoquinone B Via a Stereoselective Julia-Kocienski Olefination
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The total synthesis of cytotoxic meroditerpenoid naphthoquinone derivative chabrolonaphthoquinone B (1) in an enantiospecific manner is divulged using a chiral pool approach. The key step of our synthetic route is a modified Julia olefination between a sulfone-bearing aliphatic fragment and a Diels-Alder-derived aromatic aldehyde, leading to the stereoselective construction of the E-trisubstituted double bond.
- Koumbis, Alexandros E.,Peitsinis, Zisis V.,Rizos, Stergios R.
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- A Tellurium Transposition Route to Allylic Alcohols: Overcoming Some Limitations of the Sharpless-Katsuki Asymmetric Epoxidation
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Good yields of enantiomeric allylic alcohols can be obtained in high enantiomeric excess (ee) by combining Sharpless-Katsuki asymmetric epoxidation process (SAE) with tellurium chemistry.The advantages of the tellurium process are as follows: (1) the 50percent yield limitation on the allylic alcohol in the Sharpless kinetic resolution (SKR) can be overcome; (2) allylic tertiary alcohols which are unsatisfactory substrates in the SKR can be obtained in high optical purity; (3) optically active secondary allylic alcohols with tertiary alkyl substituents (e.g. tert-butyl) at C-1 can be obtained in high ee; (4) optically active sterically congested cis secondary alcohols can be obtained in high ee; and (5) the nuisance of the slow SAE of some vinyl carbinols can be avoided.The key step in the reaction sequence is either a stereospecific 1,3-transposition of double bond and alcohol functionalities or an inversion of the alcohol configuration with concomitant deoxygenation of the epoxide function in epoxy alcohols.Trans secondary allylic alcohols can be converted to cis secondary allylic alcohols by way of erythro epoxy alcohols (glycidols); threo glycidyl derivatives are converted to trans secondary allylic alcohols.These transformations are accomplished by the action of telluride ion, generated in situ from the element, on a glycidyl sulfonate ester.Reduction of elemental Te is conveniently done with rongalite (HOCH2SO2Na) in an aqueous medium.This method is satisfactory when Te2- is required to attack at primary carbon site of a glycidyl sulfonate.In cases where Te2- is required to attack a secondary carbon site, reduction of the tellurium must be done with NaBH4 or LiEt3BH.Elemental tellurium is precipitated during the course of the reactions and can be recovered and reused.
- Dittmer, Donald C.,Discordia, Robert P.,Zhang, Yanzhi,Murphy, Christopher K.,Kumar, Archana,et al.
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p. 718 - 731
(2007/10/02)
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- Total Syntheses of (+)-Thyrsiferol, (+)-Thyrsiferyl 23-Acetate, and (+)-Venustatriol
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The first total syntheses of (+)-thyrsiferol (1), (+)-thyrsiferyl 23-acetate (3), and (+)-venustatriol (5) have been accomplished in a stereoselective manner.An effective synthetic scheme to construct the BC ring system, which adopts a chair/twist-boat conformation, was first developed by means of a model study.This method involves stereoselective formation of the strained C ring by intramolecular attack of the C7-hydroxyl group at the C3-postion of the 2,3-epoxy alcohol, employing titanium tetraisopropoxide as an acidic activator.Based on the information accumulated in the model study and retrosynthetic considerations, the total syntheses of 1,3, and 5 were performed in the sequence of (1) construction of the BC ring system equipped with a C1-C6 carbon unit, (2) elongation of the C17-C24 carbon chain, (3) formation of a D ring through the stereoselective epoxidation of the 4-en-1-ol system and successive cyclization, and (4) construction of the A ring by bromonium ion induced cyclization of the 4-en-1-ol system.
- Hashimoto, Masaru,Kan, Toshiyuki,Nozaki, Koji,Yanagiya, Mitsutoshi,Shirahama, Harushia,Matsumoto, Takeshi
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p. 5088 - 5107
(2007/10/02)
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