An Efficient Synthesis of <i>p</i><i>eri</i>-Hydroxy Aromatic Compounds via a Strong-Base-Induced [4+2] Cycloaddition of Homophthalic Anhydrides with Enolizable Enones
作者:Kiyosei Iio、Namakkal G. Ramesh、Akiko Okajima、Kazuhiro Higuchi、Hiromichi Fujioka、Shuji Akai、Yasuyuki Kita
DOI:10.1021/jo990649q
日期:2000.1.1
An efficient synthesis of peri-hydroxy aromatic compounds has been accomplished via a strong-base-induced [4+2] cycloaddition of homophthalic anhydrides with alpha-sulfinyl-substituted derivatives of enolizable enones. The unsubstituted enones did not undergo an efficient [4+2] cycloaddition reaction with homophthalic anhydrides, presumably due to their enolization under the basic reaction conditions
Seventeen years after the isolation of the promising antitumor antibiotic fredericamycin A, the first asymmetric total synthesis of this compound has been accomplished and thereby its absolute configuration established. The key feature is the regiocontrolled [4+2] cycloaddition of 3 to 2, which was obtained by the stereospecific rearrangement of 1. Cp = (-)-camphanoyl.