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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 69, Issue 9, Pages 3087-3092Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo049884l
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A total asymmetric synthesis of (-)-cephalotaxine is reported. The chemistry of alpha,beta-unsaturated gamma-lactams was used to access the 1-azaspiro[4.4]nonane skeleton in enantiomerically pure form via a stereocontrolled semipinacolic rearrangement of an alpha-hydroxyiminium ion. This Spiro compound was transformed into (-)-cephalotaxine without any racemization or epimerization by following the racemic synthesis reported by Kuehne. We thus performed a total synthesis of (-)-cephalotaxine in 98.7% ee with an overall yield of 9.8% over a 16 steps sequence. This synthetic process was adaptable to the access of some alkylated analogues.
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