Synthesis 2018; 50(22): 4351-4358
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1609754
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Synthesis of Enhanced, Isolable Disulfanium Salts and their Application to Thiiranium-Promoted Polyene Cyclizations

The University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA   Email: sasnyder@uchicago.edu
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Hyung Min Chi
The University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA   Email: sasnyder@uchicago.edu
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Kenneth C. DeBacker
The University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA   Email: sasnyder@uchicago.edu
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The University of Chicago, Department of Chemistry, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA   Email: sasnyder@uchicago.edu
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Publication History

Received: 15 March 2018

Accepted after revision: 09 April 2018

Publication Date:
14 June 2018 (online)


Dedicated to Prof. Scott E. Denmark on the occasion of his 65th birthday.

Published as part of the Special Section dedicated to Scott E. Denmark on the occasion of his 65th birthday.

Abstract

Although electrophile-promoted polyene cyclizations have long been a mainstay transformation for the rapid and stereocontrolled preparation of varied natural products and designed molecules, efforts to effect sulfur-promoted variants have arguably lagged behind other counterparts. This state of affairs is particularly true with alkyl sulfide-based electrophiles, even in racemic variants. Herein, building on previously reported discoveries, is described a distinct and modular method to prepare a range of isolable alkyl and aryl disulfanium salts that can affect thiiranium-based polyene cyclizations in moderate to good yields. In most of the substrates probed, these reagents provide superior yields to previously reported alternatives. In addition, initial efforts to develop an asymmetric variant of the process through the use of chiral versions of these reagents are discussed.

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