Total synthesis of (+)-phyllantidine
Total synthesis of (+)-phyllantidine
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200602569
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发表时间:
2006-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Kerr, Michael A.
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作者:
Carson, Cheryl A.;Kerr, Michael A.
6560 2006 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 6560–6563 core imbedded within an azabicyclo [3.2. 1] ring system. This is fused to a butenolide moiety forming a rather interesting and structurally complex molecular framework. Securinine (1) and its C2 epimer allosecurinine (2) are constituents of Securinega suffruticosa,[2] and the antipodal compounds virosecurinine (3) and viroallosecurinine (4) are found in Securinega virosa.[3] While these compounds show interesting activity in the central nervous system (CNS) in the form of antagonism of the γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptor,[4] the synthetic chemist is drawn to the compact and complex architecture of the compounds. Indeed several syntheses of the securinine series of compounds have been reported.[5] Of interest to us are not the indolizidines 1–4 but a related and much rarer alkaloid phyllantidine 5 (isolated from Phyllanthus discoides and Seurinega suffruticosa)[6] and its enantiomer (from Breynia coronata).[7] To date, no syntheses of phyllantidine (or ent-phyllantidine) have been reported, although phyllantidine is available through the peroxide (or peracid) oxidation of virosecurinine.[8] This proceeds via the N-oxide which undergoes a Meisenheimer rearrangement yielding phyllantidine. Since the synthetic routes to the securinine alkaloids are quite complex and lengthy, this route to phyllantidine is less than appealing. Herein, we present a convenient and direct synthesis of (+)-phyllantidine. Perhaps the most significant structural feature of phyllantidine is the tetrahydro-1, 2-oxazine ring. This heterocyclic motif is uncommon in natural products and is found in FR-900482 (and a few related compounds)[9]. This structural feature also makes phyllantidine an elusive target since there are few ways to directly prepare tetrahydro-1, 2-oxazines. Recently, however, we reported that nitrones (either as isolated compounds or generated in situ) react smoothly with 1, 1-cyclopropane diesters under the influence of Lewis acids to form tetrahydro-1, 2-oxazines in what we have termed a “homo-1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition”.[10] The reactions are diastereoselective and yield only 3, 6-cis adducts. Both the substitution pattern and relative stereochemistry of the adducts from this cycloaddition would fulfill the requirements of a practical synthetic route to phyllantidine (Scheme 1).