摘要

A concise and flexible synthesis of the morpholine-spiroketal natural product acortatarin A, isolated from the traditional Chinese medicine Acorus tatarinowii, is reported. The key step involves a Maillard-type condensation of an amine derived from D-mannitol with a dihydropyranone. The approach also enables access to analogues of acortatarin A for biological evaluation and can be applied to the synthesis of related 2-formylpyrrole natural products.