Gold(I)-catalyzed annulation of salicylaldehydes and aryl acetylenes as an expedient route to isoflavanones
Gold(I)-catalyzed annulation of salicylaldehydes and aryl acetylenes as an expedient route to isoflavanones
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200603495
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Li, Chao-Jun
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作者:
Skouta, Rachid;Li, Chao-Jun
Isoflavanones are widely present in nature; the isoflavanone moiety is the key structural feature of many complex natural products, such as the pterocarpenoids and eriotrichinB (Scheme 1).[1] The classical methods for synthesizing isoflavanones are 1) the reduction of alkoxy isoflavones by using a complex metal hydride;[2, 3] 2) the hydroboration of 3-phenylcoumarin or 4-hydroxy-3-phenylcoumarin followed by oxidation with chromic acid;[4] 3) Heck arylation of 4-acyloxy 2H-chromenes with aryl mercury (ii) compounds in the presence of catalytic amounts of palladium acetate;[5] 4) the treatment of 2-hydroxyalkoxy deoxybenzoines with methylene iodide;[4] and 5) the Mannich reaction of 2-hydroxyalkoxy deoxybenzoines with paraformaldehyde in the presence of secondary amines, such as piperidine or dimethylamine, in boiling methanol.[6] However, these methods are limited by the use of expensive starting materials and, in some cases, toxic reagents.[5]Gold catalysis has emerged recently as a powerful tool in synthesis.[7, 8] For example, heterobicyclic molecules,[9] highly substituted pyrroles,[10] furans,[11] and chromanols [12] have been synthesized expediently by gold-based catalysis. A gold-catalyzed reaction has also been used as a key step in the total synthesis of angucyclinone antibiotics.[13] We have