Synthesis of the Cyclobutylfuran Sector of Providencin via Zirconium-mediated Oxygen Abstraction from a Furanoside
摘要:
A portion of the macrocyclic cembrenoid diterpene providencin possessing conjoined cyclobutane and furancarboxylate units was synthesized from D-glucose using deoxygenative ring contraction methodology to construct the tetrasubstituted cyclobutane and a Knoevenagel condensation of glyceraldehyde to fabricate the trisubstituted furan.
Synthesis of the Cyclobutylfuran Sector of Providencin via Zirconium-mediated Oxygen Abstraction from a Furanoside
摘要:
A portion of the macrocyclic cembrenoid diterpene providencin possessing conjoined cyclobutane and furancarboxylate units was synthesized from D-glucose using deoxygenative ring contraction methodology to construct the tetrasubstituted cyclobutane and a Knoevenagel condensation of glyceraldehyde to fabricate the trisubstituted furan.
Studies of the Synthesis of Providencin: Construction and Assembly of Two Major Subunits
作者:James D. White、Somnath Jana
DOI:10.1021/jo402485h
日期:2014.1.17
The "northern" sector of the cembranoid diterpene providencin containing a tetrasubstituted cyclobutane was synthesized from the bis(acetonide) of D-glucose using dicyclopentadienylzirconium(0)-mediated oxygen abstraction from a furanose. Oxidative scission of the vinyl substituent of this cyclobutane gave an aldehyde, which was reacted with an alkynylstannane to provide an allenol. Cyclization of the derived allenone with silver nitrate led to a cyclobutylfuran comprising the northern subunit of providencin. The "southern" sector of the cembranoid skeleton containing a trisubstituted iodoalkene attached to an alpha-phenylselenyl-gamma-lactone was synthesized from (R)-glycidol. Negishi carbometalation-iodination established the (E)-iodoalkene, and addition of the lithio dianion of phenylselenoacetic acid to a tosylate generated the substituted lactone. The two sectors were joined via stannylation of the furan of the northern component followed by Stille cross-coupling of the furylstannane with the iodoalkene of the southern subunit. Linkage of the two segments was also made at C12-C13 of providencin using intermolecular aldol condensation of the enolate from the selenyl lactone of the southern portion with an acetaldehyde appendage on the cyclobutane of the northern sector. Closure of the providencin macrocycle from these conjoined subunits was unsuccessful.