- A General, Concise Strategy that Enables Collective Total Syntheses of over 50 Protoberberine and Five Aporhoeadane Alkaloids within Four to Eight Steps
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A concise, catalytic, and general strategy that allowed efficient total syntheses of 22 natural 13-methylprotoberberines within four steps for each molecule is reported. This synthesis represents the most efficient and shortest route to date, featuring three catalytic processes: CuI-catalyzed redox-A3 reaction, Pd-catalyzed reductive carbocyclization, and PtO2-catalyzed hydrogenation. Importantly, this new strategy to the tetracyclic framework has also been applied to the collective concise syntheses of >30 natural protoberberines (without 13-methyl group) and five aporhoeadane alkaloids.
- Zhou, Shiqiang,Tong, Rongbiao
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p. 7084 - 7089
(2016/05/19)
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- Chemical Transformation of Protoberberines. V. Photochemical Valence Isomerization of Berberinephenolbetaines to 8,14-Cycloberbines, Versatile Aziridine Derivatives for a Novel and Efficient Entry to Spirobenzylisoquinolines and Benzindenoazepines
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Irradiation of berberinephenolbetaine (12a) and its 8-alkyl derivatives (12b-e) readily effected valence isomerization to afford the corresponding novel 8,14-cycloberbines (13a-e) in high yields.On treatment with ethyl chloroformate, the 8,14-cycloberbines (13a, 13b, and 13c) were efficiently converted to the spirobenzylisoquinoines (14, 15, and 16-18, respectively) via regioselective C8-N bond cleavage.The 8,14-cycloberbine (13a), on treatment with methyl iodide, provided the benzindenoazepine (21) through regioselective C14-N bond cleavage, whereas 8-methyl- and 8-ethyl-8,14-cycloberbine (13b and 13c) gave 8-methylidene- and (Z)-8-ethylidene-spirobenzylisoquinoline (22 and 23), respectively.Irradiation of 8-methoxyberberinephenolbetaine (26) directly afforded the spirobenzylisoquinoline (31) having a ketone and a ketal on the five-membered ring.The product (31) was converted easily to a variety of spirobenzylisoquinolines such as the diketone (36), the hydroxy-ketal (38), and the keto-alcohol derivatives (41 and 42) in excellent yieds.Keywords - photochemical valence isomerization; berberinephenolbetaine; 8,14-cycloberbine; regioselective ring cleavage; spirobenzylisoquinoline; benzindenoazepine; ethyl chloroformate; methyl iodide.
- Hanaoka, Miyoji,Mukai, Chisato,Nagami, Kazuyoshi,Okajima, Keiko,Yasuda, Shingo
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p. 2230 - 2240
(2007/10/02)
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- Reaction of Protoberberine-type Alkaloids. Part 12. A Facile Method for Regiospecific Oxygenation and Excited Oxidative Ring-cleavage of Berberine Alkaloids
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Regiospecific photo-oxygenation and photo-oxidative ring-cleavage of protoberberine alkaloids is described.Irradiation of a solution of dihydroberberine (1) in the presence of Rose Bengal under aerated conditions gave 13-oxidoberberine (3) along with berberine (2) in 80 and 7percent yields, respectively.In contrast, 7,8-dihydrocoralyne (5) gave 13-oxidocoralyne (7) in nearly quantitative yield when an aerated solution of (5) was heated in the dark.Irradiation of a solution of (3) containing Rose Bengal with visible light afforded 8,13a-epidioxy-9,10-dimethoxy-2,3-(methylenedioxy)- 13-oxo-5,6,13,13a-tetrahydro-8H-dibenzoquinolizine (11) in 90percent yield.Under the same conditions, however, (7) gave 2'-acetylpapaveraldine (14) in 88percent yield.On the other hand, when an alcoholic solution of (5) or (7) containing sodium alkoxide was irradiated with a mercury lamp (Vycol filter) under bubbling oxygen, 6,7-dimethoxyisoquinolone (16) and 3-alkoxy-5,6-dimethoxy-3-methylisobenzofuran-1(3H)-one (17) or (18) were obtained in moderate yields.A reaction mechanism which involves the initial formation of an epidioxy-intermediate was evidenced by the fact that the photolysis of (7) was carried out in the presence of borohydride anion to give (16) and 5,6-dimethoxy-3-methylisobenzofuran-1(3H)-one (19).Irradiation of (11) in the same fashion gave berberal (20) and 2-(2-formyl-3,4-dimethoxybenzoyl)-3,4-dihydro-6,7-(methylenedioxy)isoquinolin-1(2H)-one (21) in 72percent and 4percent yields, respectively.Possible mechanisms are also presented.Reduction of (3) with sodium borohydride gave (+/-)-ophiocarpine (9) and (+/-)-13-epiophiocarpine (10), with the ratio (9):(10) varying depending upon the nature of the alcohol used as solvent.An interpretation which rationalizes these observations is suggested.
- Kondo, Yoshikazu,Imai, Jiro,Inoue, Hideo
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p. 911 - 918
(2007/10/02)
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