作者:James A. Monn、Matthew J. Valli
DOI:10.1021/jo00089a022
日期:1994.5
Racemic alpha-kainic acid (1) has been prepared from (1SR,2SR,5RS)-ethyl (N-(benzyloxycarbonyl)3-aza-6-oxobicyclo[3.3.0] octane-2-carboxylate (11) in ca. 16% overall yield via a concise six-step synthetic sequence. Compound 11 is prepared pn a large scale in 50% yield via the [3 + 2] cycloaddition of thiazolium ylide 9 and 2-cyclopentenone, which provides the requisite 2,3-trans, 3,4-cis stereochemical array about the trisubstituted pyrrolidine nucleus in 1. Chemoselective addition of the one-to-one adduct of MeLi and TiCl4 to the ketone functionality in 11 followed by dehydration, oxidative ring opening, and nonbasic methylenation of the stereochemically labile C4 acetate moiety with CH2I2-Zn-TiCl4 affords the fully protected penultimate intermediate 17 which is exhaustively hydrolyzed to provide 1. This represents a highly efficient and stereocontrolled preparation of (+/-)-alpha-kainic acid.