摘要:
A novel route to a chiral functionalized [3]dendralene attached to a (-)-menthol auxiliary has been developed, which involves a dimethylsulfonium methylide mediated olefination of a substituted ethenylidene phosphonoacetate (-)-menthyl ester, followed by a Horner-Wordsworth-Emmons reaction with 4-bromobenzaldehyde. The chiral [3]dendralene was reactive enough to undergo intermolecular Diels-Alder cyclodimerization to give the highly substituted cyclohexene with very high regio- and diastereoselectivity. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.