Intermolecular Radical Cation Diels–Alder (RCDA) Reaction of Bicyclooctadienes: Biomimetic Formal Total Synthesis of Kingianin A and Total Syntheses of Kingianins D, F, H, and J

2014 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 919-926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hee Nam Lim ◽  
Kathlyn A. Parker
1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 993-995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazimierz Antczak ◽  
John F. Kingston ◽  
Alex G. Fallis

Stereoselective total synthesis of (±)-sinularene and (±)-5-epi-sinularene are described. The sequence employs a "blocked" cyclopentadiene in which the cyclopropane unit also serves as a latent methyl group. Thus intramolecular [4 + 2] cycloaddition of the substituted methyl spiro[2.4]hepta-4,6-dien-1-yl)-2-pentenoate 11 affords 5-benzyloxy-6-isopropyl-8-carbomethoxytetracyclo[5.4.01,7.02,4.02,9]undec-10-ene (12) which after selective hydrogenolysis generates the tricyclo[4.4.01,6.02,8]decane (sinularene) ring system. Removal of the secondary hydroxyl function (Ph3P/CCl4/CH3CN; H2/Pd/C), reduction of the methyl ester (LiAlH4), and introduction of the exocyclic double bond (acetate pyrolysis, 550 °C) completes the synthesis of (±)-sinularene in 14 steps from cyclopentadiene. A parallel series of reactions employing the isopropyl epimer of 12 affords (±)-5-epi-sinularene.


1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (10) ◽  
pp. 1908-1921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Cory ◽  
Lester P. J. Burton ◽  
Dominic M. T. Chan ◽  
Fred R. McLaren ◽  
Mary H. Rastall ◽  
...  

Insertion of a carbon atom into a methyl cyclohexene, leading in a single synthetic step to a bicyclo[3.2.1.02.7]octane by carbene addition to the double bond and carbene insertion into a methyl C—H bond, has been accomplished by treating the cyclohexene with carbon tetrabromide and methyllithium at low temperatures. This new bicycloannulation method has been employed in a total synthesis of ishwarane (1), the naturally occurring parent hydrocarbon of the ishwarane class of tetracyclic sesquiterpenes. Although this reaction was not successful with various possible precursors of ishwarone (2), this natural product was prepared in low yield by a two-step version of the carbon atom insertion bicycloannulation (CAIB) procedure involving addition of bromoform-derived dibromocarbene to the octalone (5) followed by treatment of the resulting dibromocyclopropane (56) with methyllithium. The same two-step sequence was also successful in the first synthesis of norishwarane (20), the hydrocarbon comprising the bare ring system of the ishwarane sesquiterpenoids. The Diels–Alder synthesis used in the preparation of the octalin precursor (18) of norishwarane could not be used for the terpenes themselves because of the lack of dienophilic reactivity of the required cyclohexenone (7). A regioselective Diels–Alder equivalent sequence was therefore developed, consisting of conjugate addition of lithium di(3-methyl-3-butenyl)cuprate (42) to 2,3,4-trimethylcyclohex-2-en-1-one (7), epoxidation, base-catalyzed cyclization of the resulting epoxide (47) to a mixture of primary and tertiary alcohols (50 and 49, respectively), and dehydration of 49 to give 5. In the case of ishwarane, the octalin precursor (62) was synthesized by conjugate addition of lithium dimethylcuprate to octalone 59, addition of methyl magnesium bromide to the resulting decalone (60) to give octalol 61, and dehydration.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 3224
Author(s):  
Leander Geske ◽  
Ulrich Kauhl ◽  
Mohamed E. M. Saeed ◽  
Anja Schüffler ◽  
Eckhard Thines ◽  
...  

The biological activities of shancigusin C (1) and bletistrin G (2), natural products isolated from orchids, are reported along with their first total syntheses. The total synthesis of shancigusin C (1) was conducted by employing the Perkin reaction to forge the central stilbene core, whereas the synthesis of bletistrin G (2) was achieved by the Wittig olefination followed by several regioselective aromatic substitution reactions. Both syntheses were completed by applying only renewable starting materials according to the principles of xylochemistry. The cytotoxic properties of shancigusin C (1) and bletistrin G (2) against tumor cells suggest suitability as a starting point for further structural variation.


Author(s):  
Aldahir Ramos Orea ◽  
María Teresa Ramírez-Apan ◽  
Rosa M. Chávez-Santos ◽  
Rodrigo Aguayo-Ortiz ◽  
Clara I Espitia ◽  
...  

A high-yielding total synthesis of the indole alkaloid prenostodione was completed in 4 steps and 44% overall yield from 1H-indole-3-carboxylic acid. The expedient syntheses of prenostodiones containing distinct substituents at...


2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tian-Ze Li ◽  
Chang-An Geng ◽  
Xiu-Juan Yin ◽  
Tong-Hua Yang ◽  
Xing-Long Chen ◽  
...  

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