Practical Syntheses of Enantiomerically Enriched γ-Lactones and γ-Hydroxy Ketones by the Alkylation of Pseudoephedrine Amides with Epoxides and Their Derivatives
作者:Andrew G. Myers、Lydia McKinstry
DOI:10.1021/jo952032o
日期:1996.1.1
Pseudoephedrine amide enolates are shown to undergo efficient alkylation reactions with epoxides as electrophiles. Reactions with monosubstituted epoxides are subject to stereochemical matching such that the pairing leading to the 1,3-syn diastereomer is a highly selective, synthetically useful process, while the pairing forming the 1,3-anti diastereomer is not. Reactions with the 1,1-disubstituted epoxide isobutylene oxide are also highly diastereoselective and synthetically useful, but ethylene oxide exhibits poor diastereoselectivity. As an alternative to the use of ethylene oxide, 2-(tert-butyldimethylsilyloxy)ethyl iodide is shown to undergo highly diastereoselective and efficient alkylation reactions with pseudoephedrine amide enolates. Interestingly, epoxides and alkyl halides are found to attack opposite pi-faces of pseudoephedrine amide enolates. The products of each of these alkylation reactions are transformed efficiently into gamma-lactones by acidic hydrolysis and into methyl ketones by the addition of methyllithium. The methodology described provides useful procedures for the synthesis of enantiomerically enriched gamma-lactones and gamma-hydroxy ketones.
Total Synthesis and Structural Revision of the Marine Macrolide Neopeltolide
作者:Daniel W. Custar、Thomas P. Zabawa、Karl A. Scheidt
DOI:10.1021/ja710080q
日期:2008.1.1
The totalsynthesis and structural revision of the marine natural product neopeltolide is reported. The key bond-forming step involves a Lewis acid-catalyzed intramolecular cyclization to install the tetrahydropyran ring and the macrocycle simultaneously. This type of cyclization is the first of its kind and assembles the carbon backbone of the natural product efficiently. The synthesis of the reported
Chiral Aggregates Formed from Methylated Tetraenoic Fatty Acids: Formation of Both Antipodes of Chiral Aggregates from a Single Enantiomer and Time-Dependent Stereomutation
作者:Jianguo Ma、Hwan-Sung Cheon、Yoshito Kishi
DOI:10.1021/ol062834d
日期:2007.1.1
Formation and behaviors of chiral aggregates of methylated tetraenoic fatty acids (TE-FAs) were reported. In the C-24 TE-FA series, the aggregate prepared by dispersing an ethanol stock solution of C-24 TE-FA 1b into sodium phosphate buffer gave a strong positive Cotton effect, whereas the aggregate prepared from a methanol stock solution gave a negative Cotton effect. In the C-20 TE-FA series, the