Total synthesis of Epothilone E and related side-chain modified analogues via a stille coupling based strategy1This paper is dedicated with admiration and respect to the memory of Sir Derek H. R. Barton.1
A Stille couplingstrategy has been utilized to complete a totalsynthesis of epothilone E from vinyl iodide 7 and thiazole-stannane 8h. The central core fragment 7 and its trans-isomer 11 were prepared from triene 15 using ring-closing metathesis (RCM), and were subsequently coupled to a variety of alternative stannanes to provide a library of epothilone analogues 18a-o and 19a-o. The Stille coupling