“…Given these results, a variety of electrophiles were screened (see the Supporting Information). To our surprise, iodomethyltri- n -butylstannane was the sole electrophile that successfully alkylated 22 . With the stannyl ether derivative 24 in hand, we could interrogate the [2,3]-Wittig rearrangement via application of the Still variant of this sigmatropic rearrangement.…”
The evolution of a successful strategy for the synthesis
of the
strained, cage-like antiviral diterpenoids wickerols A and B is described.
Initial attempts to access the carbocyclic core were surprisingly
challenging and in retrospect, presaged the many detours needed to
ultimately arrive at the fully adorned wickerol architecture. In most
cases, conditions to trigger desired outcomes with respect to both
reactivity and stereochemistry were hard-won. The successful synthesis
ultimately leveraged alkenes in virtually all productive bond-forming
events. A series of conjugate addition reactions generated the fused
tricyclic core, a Claisen rearrangement was used to install an otherwise
unmanageable methyl-bearing stereogenic center, and a Prins cyclization
closed the strained bridging ring. This final reaction proved enormously
interesting because the strain of the ring system permitted diversion
of the presumed initial Prins product into several different scaffolds.
“…Given these results, a variety of electrophiles were screened (see the Supporting Information). To our surprise, iodomethyltri- n -butylstannane was the sole electrophile that successfully alkylated 22 . With the stannyl ether derivative 24 in hand, we could interrogate the [2,3]-Wittig rearrangement via application of the Still variant of this sigmatropic rearrangement.…”
The evolution of a successful strategy for the synthesis
of the
strained, cage-like antiviral diterpenoids wickerols A and B is described.
Initial attempts to access the carbocyclic core were surprisingly
challenging and in retrospect, presaged the many detours needed to
ultimately arrive at the fully adorned wickerol architecture. In most
cases, conditions to trigger desired outcomes with respect to both
reactivity and stereochemistry were hard-won. The successful synthesis
ultimately leveraged alkenes in virtually all productive bond-forming
events. A series of conjugate addition reactions generated the fused
tricyclic core, a Claisen rearrangement was used to install an otherwise
unmanageable methyl-bearing stereogenic center, and a Prins cyclization
closed the strained bridging ring. This final reaction proved enormously
interesting because the strain of the ring system permitted diversion
of the presumed initial Prins product into several different scaffolds.
“…The resulting suspension was allowed to warm to rt. After 60 min, the reaction mixture was re-cooled to 0 °C and tributyl(iodomethyl)stannane 5 (1.96 g, 4.56 mmol, 1.20 equiv) was added dropwise over 10 min. The resulting suspension was allowed to warm to r.t. over 3 h and stirred at r.t. for 3 h. The reaction mixture was cooled to 0 °C and slowly quenched with sat aq NH4Cl (50 mL).…”
Saturated nitrogen heterocycles can be found with increasing abundance in bioactive molecules despite a limited number of methods to access these scaffolds. However, the coupling of recently introduced SnAP [tin (Sn) amine protocol] reagents with a wide range of aldehydes and ketones has proven to be a reliable, practical, and versatile one-step approach to saturated N-heterocycles. While effective, the lack of mechanistic understanding limits efforts to develop new catalytic and enantioselective variants. To distinguish between a polar or radical mechanism, we assessed Lewis and Brønsted acids, radical trapping experiments, and radical clock SnAP reagents reinforcing the current understanding of the SnAP protocol as a radical cyclization.
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