The convergent total synthesis of brevenal, a non-toxic brevetoxin antagonist, has been achieved. The ABC ring segment and the E ring precursor were connected by the intramolecularallylation followed by ring-closingmetathesis to furnish the pentacyclic ether compound. An alternative route to the key synthetic intermediate, a pentacyclic ether core, was also examined. The right- and left-hand side
An improved synthesis of the A–E ring segment of ciguatoxin CTX3C is described. The E ring segment was synthesized by the intramolecular reaction of allylicstannane and aldehyde with high stereoselectivity. Construction of the A–E ring framework was performed by using the intramolecular allylation of α-acetoxy ether followed by ring-closing metathesis.
Total Synthesis of (−)-Brevisin: A Concise Synthesis of a New Marine Polycyclic Ether
作者:Takefumi Kuranaga、Naohito Ohtani、Ryosuke Tsutsumi、Daniel G. Baden、Jeffrey L. C. Wright、Masayuki Satake、Kazuo Tachibana
DOI:10.1021/ol102925d
日期:2011.2.18
The first and highly efficient totalsynthesis of (−)-brevisin has been achieved. The title compound was synthesized in only 29 steps (longest linear sequence) from commercially available starting materials. The synthesis provided over 70 mg of a marine polycyclic ether compound.
A convergentsynthesis of the A–E ring segment of ciguatoxin CTX3C was achieved via the intramolecularallylation of an α-chloroacetoxy ether and subsequentring-closingmetathesis.
A convergent asymmetric synthesis of the marine natural product calyculin A has been accomplished through the union of the two subunits comprising the C1-C25 and C26-C37 portions of the molecule. These fragments were constructed utilizing auxiliary-based asymmetric aldol, alkylation, hydroxylation, and Michael reactions to establish 10 of the 15 stereogenic centers, The remaining chirality was incorporated through internal asymmetric induction. Stereoselective Wittig coupling of the two fragments and subsequent deprotection provided synthetic calyculin A. The spectral properties of the synthetic material were in complete agreement with those of the natural material except for the optical rotation which was equal and opposite in sign to that of the natural material. The absolute configuration of (-)-calyculin A has thus been shown to be opposite to that illustrated in structure 1.