A synthetic study of atropurpuran: construction of a pentacyclic framework by an intramolecular reverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reaction.
A synthetic study of atropurpuran: construction of a pentacyclic framework by an intramolecular reverse-electron-demand Diels-Alder reaction.
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10.1002/anie.201103950
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2011-09
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Takahiro Suzuki;Aya Sasaki;Naoki Egashira;Susumu Kobayashi
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Takahiro Suzuki;Aya Sasaki;Naoki Egashira;Susumu Kobayashi
Aconitum is a genus of flowering plants that produce a variety of poisons and compounds of medicinal importance. The fascinating bioactivities of these compounds arise from C19 and C20 diterpene alkaloids, such as aconitine, hetisine, atisine, and kobusine.[1] Isolation of non-alkaloidal diterpenes from the genus Aconitum, however, has rarely been reported.[2] In 2009, Wang and co-workers reported the isolation of the structurally unique non-alkaloidal diterpene atropurpuran (1)[3] from Aconitum hemsleyanum var. atropurpureum (Scheme1). The structure of atropurpuran features an unprecedented cage-like skeleton that consists of five sixmembered rings (A, B, C, D, and E rings). Intriguingly, the B, C, D, and E rings constitute the tetracyclo [5.3. 3.04, 9. 04, 12]-tridecane skeleton, which includes two bicyclo [2.2. 2] octane units. This unusual cage-like structural motif is only found in a few members of the diterpene alkaloids, namely arcutin (2), arcutinine (3), and arcutinidine (4), which were isolated from the roots of Aconitum arcuatum.[4] Compounds 2–4 are closely related to atropurpuran and only differ in the substitution atC-19 (ie, by forming a 1-pyrroline ring) and the hydroxylation of the C-1, 10 double bond. Despite the intriguing biosynthetic and structural properties of the tetracyclo [5.3. 3.04, 9. 04, 12] tridecane skeleton, there are no previous reports that describe efforts to synthesize this compound. Consequently, at the outset of our synthetic investigation on 1, we attempted to establish a methodology for the construction of the tetracyclic skeleton. Herein, we report the first entry to a tetracyclo [5.3. 3.04, 9. 04, 12] tridecane skeleton and the pentacyclic carbon framework of 1 through an intramolecular Diels–Alder reaction of masked orthobenzoquinone (MOB).