Sulfone-mediated total synthesis of (±)-lepadiformine
Sulfone-mediated total synthesis of (±)-lepadiformine
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200604670
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发表时间:
2007-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Craig, Donald
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作者:
Caldwell, John J.;Craig, Donald
(À)-Lepadiformine (1) is a decahydro-1H-pyrrolo [1, 2-j] quinoline isolated in 1994 by Biard etal. from the tunicate Clavelina lepadiformis.[1] Lepadiformine has moderate in vitro cytotoxic activity towards various tumor cell lines, including nonsmall-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLCN6), and is also a cardiac-K+-channel blocker.[2] Lepadiformine is related both biologically and structurally to the marine alkaloid (À)-fasicularin (2)[3] and the cylindricines 3.[4] In the late 1990s, the research groups of Weinreb [5] and Pearson [6] showed independently through unambiguous total syntheses that 1 must have the 7aR, 11aS relative configuration corresponding to trans fusion of the carbocycle to the octahydroindolizine substructure. The relative configuration of all stereocenters in structure 1 was proved by the first total synthesis of the racemic natural product, which was completed by Kibayashi and co-workers in late 1999.[7a] The same research group established the absolute configuration of 1 in 2002.[7b] To date, a further four total syntheses of racemic or enantiomerically pure 1 have been completed,[8–11] together with notable partial and total syntheses of 2 [7a, c, d, e, 8d, 12] and 3.[5b, 7d, 10, 13]Our interest in the total synthesis of lepadiformine stemmed in large part from the presence of a highly substituted pyrrolidine ring embedded in the tricyclic core. Previous studies in this laboratory resulted in total syntheses of the pyrrolidine-containing alkaloids (+)-monomorine I [14] and (+)-preussin.[15] The pyrrolidine rings were formed by base-mediated 5-endo-trig cyclization reactions, in which amides undergo an intramolecular reaction with vinylic sulfones generated in situ. It occurred to us that the hexyl side chain in 1 could be introduced by substitution of an aminal, which could in turn be accessed from a pyrrolidine formed through a 5-endo-trig cyclization of a suitably substituted vinylic sulfone (Scheme 1). We planned to make the unsaturated cyclization substrate from a spirocyclic aziridine by nucleophilic ring opening with lithiated methyl phenyl sulfone followed by condensation with an aldehyde,