A Nine-Step Total Synthesis of (-)-Platencin

作者：Tiefenbacher Konrad^*; Mulzer Johann

来源：Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2009, 74(8): 2937-2941.

DOI：10.1021/jo9001855

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Within 1 year, platencin, A recently discovered antibiotic, has become a highly competitive synthetic target, due to its promising bioactivity and its unusual complex molecular architecture. Herein, a particularly concise total synthesis of platencin starting from inexpensive perillaldehyde is described. The key features of this approach are (1) a highly diastereoselective Diels-Alder reaction with Rawal's diene-forming the first all-carbon quaternary center, (2) a ring-closing metathesis to generate the strained tricylic skeleton, (3) a hydration/dehydration strategy to efficiently shift the endocyclic alkene to the exoposition, and (4) a 1,4-addition of a hindered ketone enolate to methyl acrylate to create the second all-carbon quaternary center. In view of the brevity (nine linear steps) and the overall yield of 10%, our synthesis compares favorably with all the previous ones.

• 出版日期2009-4-17