摘要:
The total synthesis of brevetoxin A is described, Our methodology of palladium-catalyzed couplings with cyclic ketene acetal phosphates was utilized to functionalize nine-membered ring lactone 4 followed by a [4+2] singlet oxygen addition to the resulting 1,3-diene (6), The product endoperoxide (7) was transformed into coupling partners 3a and 3b to be reacted with aldehyde 2, Our first attempted union of 3a and aldehyde 2 failed, most probably due to steric hindrance, which led us to explore other olefination coupling reactions. Horner- Wittig type coupling was found to be successful on advanced model systems: diphenylphosphine oxides 21 and 28 were each coupled with aldehyde 2. Key intermediates 3b and 2 were successfully coupled and ring F oxocene (44) was cyclized through the hydroxy dithioketal cyclization methodology, The final manipulations were then executed to complete the first total synthesis of brevetoxin A.