作者:Takashi Kitayama、Sayo Ohta、Yasushi Kawai、Tomoyasu Nakayama、Masataka Awata
DOI:10.1016/j.tetasy.2009.11.030
日期:2010.1
Tetra hydrozerumbone 2, which has a powerful balmy fragrance, has a stereogenic carbon at C2 and can be easily prepared from zerumbone 1, which is one of the most important materials that displays ail NMRDOS character. Reduction of 2 gave two diastereomers 3 and 4: their optically active (>99% ee) alcohols were obtained by lipase-catalyzed stereoselective transesterification of each racemic alcohol. The enantioselectivity of tetrahydrozerumbol does not entirely depend on the hydroxyl position but on the 2-methyl position Compounds (R)-2 and (S)-2 were obtained by Dess- Martin oxidation of the corresponding alcohols. Interestingly, (R)-2 showed a strong balmy fragrance while (S)-2 had hardly any fragrance (c) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.