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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 18, Issue 43, Pages 13861-13870Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201200376
Keywords
alkaloids; asymmetric synthesis; chiral auxiliary; natural products; stenine
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- JSPS
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23390005, 23790011, 24105516, 22241053, 24659005] Funding Source: KAKEN
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A route for the asymmetric synthesis of (-)-stenine, a member of the Stemona alkaloid family used as folk medicine in Asian countries, is described. The key features of the sequence employed include stereoselective transformations on a cyclohexane ring controlled by a chiral auxiliary unit and an intramolecular Mitsunobu reaction to construct the perhydroindole ring system. By using an intermediate in the route to (-)-stenine, an asymmetric synthesis of 9a-epi-stenine was also executed. The C(9a) stereocenter in 9a-epi-stenine was installed by using a Staudinger/aza-Wittig reaction of a ketoazide precursor followed by reduction of the resulting imine. The results of this effort demonstrate the applicability of the chiral auxiliary based strategy to the preparation of naturally occurring alkaloids that contain highly functionalized cyclohexane cores.
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