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Synthesis of Linoleic Acid with Chiral Isotopic Labelling at a Flanking and a Medial Allylic Methylene: the (8R,9Z,12Z)- and (11R,9Z,12Z)--Stereoisomers, and (Z)-Non-3-enal
Crombie, Leslie,Heavers, Andrew D.
, p. 1929 - 1938 (1992)
-Oct-2-ynal is converted by fermenting bakers' yeast into (1S)-oct-2-yn-1-ol with an enantiomeric purity of >96percent as measured by Mosher's MTPA method.The alcohol, as its tosyl ester, was then converted by copper-catalysed coupling with the di-Grignard of dec-9-ynoic acid and catalytic semi-hydrogenation, into (11R)-linoleic acid having less than 2percent E-material and >95 atom percentD.Provision for (11S)-linoleic acid was made by configurational inversion of (1R)-oct-2-yn-1-ol using Mitsunobu chemistry.(8R)-Linoleic acid is made by a similar approach, the labelled chiral centre being formed on (8S)-8-hydroxy-octanoic acid (>96percent ee).Reaction of the corresponding tosate with lithium acetylide-ethylenediamine complex gave, with configurational inversion, (8R)-dec-9-ynoic acid, built into (8R)-linoleic acid.A degradative circuit is applied to estimate the extent of configurational inversion in the displacement.Mitsunobu inversion of the (8S)-8-hydroxy compound provides access to (8S)-linoleic acid. (Z)-Non-3-enal, a labile aldehyde from the enzymic degradation of linoleic acid, is made in -labelled form by a synthesis which uses, as a key step, the reaction between triheptynylborane and deuteriodiazoacetic ester.