Ladder Polyether Synthesis via Epoxide-Opening Cascades Using a Disappearing Directing Group
摘要:
The combination of a trimethylsilyl group, a Brønsted base, a fluoride source, and a hydroxylic solvent enables the first construction of the tetrad of tetrahydropyran rings found in the majority of the ladder polyether natural products by way of a cascade of epoxide-opening events that emulates the final step of Nakanishi's proposed biosynthetic pathway. The trimethylsilyl group disappears during the course of the cascade, and thus these are the first epoxide ring-opening cascades that afford ladder polyether subunits containing no directing groups at the end of the cascade.
SiMe3-Based Homologation−Epoxidation−Cyclization Strategy for Ladder THP Synthesis
摘要:
[GRAPHICS]A trimethylsilyl (SiMe3) group is the basis of a strategy that emulates the three fundamental proposed processes in ladder polyether biosynthesis: chain homologation, stereoselective epoxidation (>95% ee or >95:5 dr), and endo-selective, stereospecific (inversion) hydroxyepoxide cyclization (>95:5 endo:exo, >95% dr). A tris-THP was synthesized in 18 total operations from commercial materials using this approach.
Ladder Polyether Synthesis via Epoxide-Opening Cascades Directed by a Disappearing Trimethylsilyl Group
作者:Timothy P. Heffron、Graham L. Simpson、Estibaliz Merino、Timothy F. Jamison
DOI:10.1021/jo1002455
日期:2010.4.16
Epoxide-opening cascades offer the potential to construct complex polyether natural products expeditiously and in a manner that emulates the biogenesis proposed for these compounds. Herein we provide a full account of our development of a strategy that addresses several important challenges of such cascades. The centerpiece of the method is a trimethylsilyl (SiMe3) group that serves several purposes and leaves no trace of itself by the time the cascade has come to an end. The main function of the SiMe3 group is to dictate the regioselectivity of epoxide opening. This strategy is the only general method of effecting endo-selective cascades under basic conditions.
SiMe<sub>3</sub>-Based Homologation−Epoxidation−Cyclization Strategy for Ladder THP Synthesis
作者:Timothy P. Heffron、Timothy F. Jamison
DOI:10.1021/ol0347040
日期:2003.6.1
[GRAPHICS]A trimethylsilyl (SiMe3) group is the basis of a strategy that emulates the three fundamental proposed processes in ladder polyether biosynthesis: chain homologation, stereoselective epoxidation (>95% ee or >95:5 dr), and endo-selective, stereospecific (inversion) hydroxyepoxide cyclization (>95:5 endo:exo, >95% dr). A tris-THP was synthesized in 18 total operations from commercial materials using this approach.
Ladder Polyether Synthesis via Epoxide-Opening Cascades Using a Disappearing Directing Group
作者:Graham L. Simpson、Timothy P. Heffron、Estíbaliz Merino、Timothy F. Jamison
DOI:10.1021/ja057973p
日期:2006.2.1
The combination of a trimethylsilyl group, a Brønsted base, a fluoride source, and a hydroxylic solvent enables the first construction of the tetrad of tetrahydropyran rings found in the majority of the ladder polyether natural products by way of a cascade of epoxide-opening events that emulates the final step of Nakanishi's proposed biosynthetic pathway. The trimethylsilyl group disappears during the course of the cascade, and thus these are the first epoxide ring-opening cascades that afford ladder polyether subunits containing no directing groups at the end of the cascade.