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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 81, Issue 2, Pages 415-423Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5b02014
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation
- Ministry for Research and Innovation
- University of Ottawa
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Transannular 2,6-disubstituted pyrans, like the one found in the cytotoxic marine natural product neopeltolide, are a key functional group in many polyketides. While oxa-conjugate additions have been shown to provide direct and rapid access to tetrahydropyrans in acyclic neopeltolide intermediates, a transannular strategy for construction of this ring system in a macrocyclic core has not been investigated. In this study, we demonstrate that a transannular oxa-conjugate addition strategy is a viable approach to the construction of the bicyclic core of neopeltolide. We show that transannular addition occurs readily with an alpha,beta-unsaturated ketone as the Michael acceptor and does not occur when an alpha,beta-unsaturated ester is the Michael acceptor. Our data indicates that oxa-conjugate addition is reversible and that the stereochemical outcome can be under thermodynamic control. Using computational chemistry, we show that the lowest energy diastereomer is the desired cis-pyran found in neopeltolide, and we experimentally demonstrate that the trans and cis diastereomers are interconvertible under reaction conditions with the cis-pyran product predominating. This oxa-conjugate addition strategy should provide a viable route to accessing the fully elaborated macrocyclic core of neopeltolide.
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