Enantioselective total synthesis of the potent anti-HIV agent neotripterifordin. Reassignment of stereochemistry at C(16)
Enantioselective total synthesis of the potent anti-HIV agent neotripterifordin. Reassignment of stereochemistry at C(16)
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DOI:
10.1021/ja972549c
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发表时间:
1997-10-15
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
Liu, K
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作者:
Corey, EJ;Liu, K
The Chinese medicinal plant Tripterygium wilfordii Hook (Celastraceae) has provided extracts with antitumor, antiinflammatory, and immunosuppressive activities1, 2 and a number of bioactive compounds, including the antitumor diterpenoids triptolide and tripdiolide3 and the potent inhibitor of HIV replication, neotripterifordin (EC50 25 nM). 4, 5 Neotripterifordin, which had previously been assigned structure 1, 5 is also of interest as a challenging target for synthesis because of the combined complexity of pentacyclic topology, stereochemistry, and functionality. In this paper, we describe an enantioselective total synthesis of neotripterifordin which dictates revision of structure from 1 to 2. The absolute stereochemistry of the synthetic neotripterifordin was set in place by a combination of enantioselective catalytic epoxidation and oxirane-initiated cation-olefin polyannulation.Wittig coupling of unsaturated ketone 3 with phosphonium ylide 46 (1.1 equiv) in 20: 1 THF-HMPA at-78 C for 1 h and then at 23 C for 5 h produced the Z-olefin 5 stereospecifically in 82% yield. 7 Conversion of 5 to the triene 6 was accomplished in 85% yield by the following sequence:(1) THP (tetrahydropyranyl) cleavage (0.1 equiv of pyridinium tosylate in ethanol at 55 C for 4 h);(2) oxidation of the allylic alcohol (MnO2 in hexane at 23 C for 1 h);(3) Wittig methylenation (Ph3PdCH2 in THF at 23 C); and (4) desilylation (Bu4NF, THF, 23 C, 4 h). Katsuki-Sharpless epoxidation8 of the allylic alcohol subunit of 6 (0.09 equiv of (-)-diethyl tartrate, 0.075 equiv of Ti (Oi-Pr) 4, 3 equiv of t-BuOOH, 4 Å molecular sieves, CH2Cl2, at-23 C for 2 h and-12 C for 15 h) gave the corresponding (R)-R, β-epoxy carbinol of 96% ee in 94% yield which was O-benzylated (1.15 equiv of NaH, 1.1 equiv of benzyl bromide, 0.1 equiv of n-Bu4NI in THF at 23 C for 6 h) to form the chiral epoxy diene ether 7 in 94% yield. Treatment of 7 with 1.2 equiv of TiCl4 in CH2Cl2 at-94 C for 10 min effected a remarkably clean and stereoselective double-annu-