Versatile Asymmetric Synthesis of the Kavalactones: First Synthesis of (+)-Kavain
作者:Thomas E. Smith、Mabel Djang、Alan J. Velander、C. Wade Downey、Kathleen A. Carroll、Sophie van Alphen
DOI:10.1021/ol0493960
日期:2004.7.1
Three asymmetric pathways to the kavalactones have been developed. The first method is chiral auxiliary-based and utilizes aldol reactions of N-acetyl thiazolidinethiones followed by a malonate displacement/decarboxylation reaction. The second approach uses the asymmetric catalytic Mukaiyama additions of dienolate nucleophile equivalents developed by Carreira and Sato. Finally, tin-substituted intermediates, prepared by either of these routes, can serve as advanced general precursors of kavalactone derivatives via Pd(0)-catalyzed Stille couplings with aryl halides.