Gold(I)-catalyzed cyclizations of silyl enol ethers: Application to the synthesis of (+)-lycopladine A
Gold(I)-catalyzed cyclizations of silyl enol ethers: Application to the synthesis of (+)-lycopladine A
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10.1002/anie.200602035
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发表时间:
2006-01-01
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16.6
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Toste, F. Dean
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Staben, Steven T.;Kennedy-Smith, Joshua J.;Toste, F. Dean
5991 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 5991–5994 2006 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim enolizable β-keto esters and β-diketones onto appended alkynes as a method for cyclopentene formation.[2] Although broadly applicable to the diastereoselective formation of a variety of cyclic and bicyclic systems, the method is limited to the synthesis of quaternary carbon atoms that bear two carbonyl functionalities. Our proposed mechanism for these transformations involves the addition of the enol tautomer of the keto ester to a gold (I)-complexed alkyne and the subsequent protonolysis of the resulting vinyl–gold (I) species. On the basis of this hypothesis, we envisioned taking advantage of the well-precedented nucleophilicity of silyl enol ethers as “frozen enol equivalents” in gold (I)-catalyzed cyclization reactions.[3, 4] Described herein is the development of the gold (I)-catalyzed cyclization of silyl enol ethers onto alkynes and allenes and the application of this carbon–carbon bond-forming reaction to an expedient total synthesis of (+)-lycopladine A.[5] Several issues must be confronted in employing silyl enol ethers in gold (I)-catalyzed reactions. First, unlike enol nucleophiles, the silylated counterparts lack the proton source necessary for the protonolysis of the vinyl–gold (I) intermediate. Thus, an external proton source is required to complete the catalytic cycle. The competitive reaction of this proton source [6, 7] and the electrophilic cationic gold (I) species [8] with the highly nucleophilic silyl enol ether must be avoided. With this in mind, we examined the feasibility of the gold (I)-catalyzed 5-exo cyclization of silyl enol ether 1 with water as the external proton source. A catalytic amount of [Ph3PAuCl]/AgBF4 in a 10: 1 dichloromethane/water mixture at 408C for 30minutes provided bicyclic ketone 2 in 78% yield of the isolated product [Eq.(1); OTf= trifluoromethanesulfonate]. The identity of the counterion proved to be key as other complexes (namely, ClO4, SbF6, and OTf salts) produced the desired cyclized product with varying amounts of hydrolyzed enol ethers. Additionally, we found that methanol could be substituted as the proton source with only a slight deterioration in the yield of the isolated product 2.Under these conditions, the gold (I)-catalyzed exo-dig cyclization proved to be general in scope (Table 1, entries 1–8). Alkyl, aryl, and hydrogen substitution was tolerated at the α-position in the completely diastereoselective formation of bicyclic systems. For example, the gold (I)-catalyzed cyclization of enol ether 3 afforded bicyclic product 4, which contains three consecutive all-carbon quaternary stereocen-