Synfacts 2009(9): 0939-0939  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1217621
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
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Synthesis of Sporolide B

Rezensent(en):Philip Kocienski
K. C. Nicolaou*, Y. Tang, J. Wang
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla and University of California, San Diego, USA
Total Synthesis of Sporolide B
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  2009,  48:  3449-3453  
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Publikationsdatum:
21. August 2009 (online)


Significance

Sporolide B is a marine metabolite with no apparent biological activity. The Scripps synthesis uses a ruthenium-catalyzed [2+2+2] ­cycloaddition to generate the chlorinated arene ring in G and an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction of the ortho-quinone H.

Comment

The excellent diastereoselectivity in the Diels-Alder reaction is due to the steric bias arising from the two oxygen substituents in the ­dienophile. However, the regioselectivity of the ­reaction is harder to explain.