A LiClO4 catalyzed cycloaddition reaction of 1-azatriene iron-tricarbonyl complex 2b with Danishefsky's diene proceeds in highly stereoselective manner to give diastereomerically pure 2-substituted dehydropiperidinone derivative 3b. The chiral cycloadduct 3b* is converted into a biologically active piperidine alkaloid SS20846A in 3 steps, by which its absolute configuration is revealed as 2S,4S.
A stereoselective total synthesis of SS20846A was efficiently accomplished by means of an intramolecular palladium(II)-catalyzed cyclization. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Efficient Chiral Induction by Diene Iron-Tricarbonyl Moiety. IV.: Asymmetric Total Synthesis of a Piperidine Alkaloid, SS20846A.
By LiClO4-catalyzed cycloaddition with Danishefsky's diene 5, an optically active 1-azatriene Fe(CO)3 complex was converted into the 2-substituted dehydropiperidinone 8, from which a piperidine alkaloid 1 (SS20846A) was synthesized in an enantiomerically pure form via successive reduction and removal of the protecting groups. Although the reduction of the ketone 3 proceeded with cis-selectivity even with a hindered reducing agent, the desired trans-alcohol 4 could be obtained by the reaction with sodium borohydride in the presence of cerium(III) chloride. The cis-selective reduction of 3 originates from the equatorial attack of a hydride on conformer A, in which the diene Fe(CO)3 moeity is axially oriented due to the severe steric hindrance with the p-methoxyphenyl (PMP) group on the nitrogen atom. However, the cerium salt reverses the stereoselectivity of the hydride reduction of 3.
Asymmetric synthesis of alkaloid (−)-(2S,4S ) SS 20846 A and its C-4 epimer
A diastereoselective intramolecular Mannich reaction using planar chiral iron dienal complexes is employed to prepare optically pure 2,4-disubstituted piperidines. This methodology is applied to the synthesis of natural alkaloids (â)-6 and (â)-7.