Stereospecific Formation of Optically Active 5-Alkyl-4-methyl-3-[(trialkylsilyl)oxy]-2-([(trialkylsilyl)oxy]- methyl)tetrahydrofurans via Diastereoselective Epoxidation and Rearrangement of 5-[(Trialkylsilyl)oxy]-2-alken-1-ols1
摘要:
A novel method for the synthesis of a series of silyl ethers of 3-(silyloxy)tetrahydrofuran-2-methanols bearing substituents at all four carbon atoms of the ring has been developed. The process involves first non-aldol aldol reaction of the epoxy silyl ether 8 to give the anti aldol product 9, stereoselective olefination and reduction to the (E)- and (Z)-allylic alcohols 10 and 11, diastereoselective epoxidation of these alcohols to give any of the four diastereomeric epoxy alcohols 12-15, silylation of the alcohols to give the epoxy silyl ethers 27-30, and final Lewis acid catalyzed rearrangement of the epoxy silyl ethers to give the desired products 31-33 and 36. In the first three instances, good yields of the desired 3-(silyloxy)-2-((silyloxy)methyl)tetrahydrofurans were obtained. However, rearrangement of the epoxy silyl ether 27 gave a mixture of products, the bis-silyl ether 36 as well as the products of a second non-aldol aldol process. This hydride migration to give the 3,5-bis((trialkylsilyl)oxy)-2,4-dimethylalkanal 35 or its internally protected 1-(silyloxy)pyran 38 can be made to occur in good yield.
Eu(OTf)<sub>3</sub>-Catalyzed Highly Regioselective Nucleophilic Ring Opening of 2,3-Epoxy Alcohols: An Efficient Entry to 3-Substituted 1,2-Diol Derivatives
In our study of the totalsynthesis of (+)-irciniastatin A, we found a need to develop a method that enables a C3-selective nucleophilicringopening of 2,3-epoxyalcohol by MeOH, by which we found that the use of combined catalytic amounts of Eu(OTf)3 and 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylpyridine (DTBMP) enables the intended transformation to obtain 3-methoxy-1,2-diol efficiently. Promising features of a