New synthetic technology for the construction of oxocenes.
New synthetic technology for the construction of oxocenes.
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用于构建氧新族的新合成技术。
DOI:
10.1021/ja00269a067
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发表时间:
1986
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
C. Hwang
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作者:
K. Nicolaou;M. Duggan;C. Hwang
'The oxwene and oxwane ring systems are often-encountered structural units in naturally occurring substances such as the brevetoxins'v2 and other marine natural pr0ducts.j Due to increasing interest in these bioactive molecules and the well-recogni7ed problems in building midsize rings, the synthesis of such systems becomes a challenging synthetic objective. In this paper we report new, practical, and efficient synthetic technologies for the construction and chemical manipulation of oxocenes4 as part of polycyclic frameworks similar to brevetoxin BS and related compounds. Because of the severe difficulties involved in synthesizing medium-size rings by cyclization reactions attributed to entropic disfavor, angle deformations, bond opposition forces, and transannular interactions: our design for an entry into these systems postulated intramolecular capture of a reactive intermediate such as the sulfonium' ion represented by structure A (Scheme I ) or its equivalent. Computer-generated and Dreiding molecular models indicated that a relatively strain-free conformation could be realized in which the p-orbital of the electrophilic sp2 carbon of A is appropriately oriented for intramolecular capture by the nearby nucleophilic oxygen, giving rise to the fused oxOcene system 2 (Scheme I). The attractiveness of such a method is enhanced when one considers the ease by which sulfonium ions (or their equivalents) can be generated from diothioketals and the synthetically rich chemistry of the expected thio group. To test the feasibility of this strategy, a potential progenitor to intermediate A, hydroxy dithioketal 1 (Scheme 11) was synthesized.* Exposure of 1 to N-chlorosuccinimide (NCS, 1.1 equiv) in acetonitrile (CH,CN) and in the presence of 2,6-lutidine (2.0 equiv), silver nitrate (&NO,, 1.1 equiv): molecular sieves (MS 3A), and silica gello a t 25 "C led, in 5 min, to a 95% yield of 2. Oxidation of 2 with 1.1 equiv of mCPBA (CH2CI2, 0 "C) led to sulfoxide 3 (95%, single stereoisomer), whereas further oxidation (1 .I equiv of additional mCPRA, CH2CI2, 0 "C) furnished sulfone 4 (92%) as colorless rods, mp 97-98.5 OC (ether-hexane). An X-ray crystallographic analysis' ' confirmed the expected stereochemistry for this compound and its pregenitors 3 and 2 (ORTEP plot, Scheme 11).