Multi-step reaction with 7 steps
1.1: 78 percent / Rh2[(4R)-1-(3-(PhCH2CH2CO)-2-imidazolidinone-4-COOMe)] / 1,2-dichloro-ethane / 2 h / 60 °C
2.1: LiHMDS / tetrahydrofuran; hexamethylphosphoric acid triamide / 1 h / -78 °C
2.2: 57 percent / hexamethylphosphoric acid triamide; tetrahydrofuran / 1.5 h / -78 - -45 °C
3.1: 86 percent / NaBH4 / aq. ethanol / 22 h / 20 °C
4.1: imidazole / dimethylformamide / 20 h / 20 °C
4.2: OsO4; NaIO4 / diethyl ether; H2O / 36 h / 20 °C
4.3: 238.4 mg / NaBH4 / aq. ethanol / 2 h / 0 °C
5.1: 88 percent / Et3N / CH2Cl2 / 0.5 h / 0 °C
6.1: 88 percent / cyclohexene / Pd/C / methanol / 1.25 h / 0 °C / Heating
7.1: 86 mg / K2CO3 / methanol / 1 h / Heating
With
1H-imidazole; sodium tetrahydroborate; potassium carbonate; triethylamine; lithium hexamethyldisilazane; cyclohexene;
palladium on activated charcoal;
In
tetrahydrofuran; methanol; N,N,N,N,N,N-hexamethylphosphoric triamide; ethanol; dichloromethane; 1,2-dichloro-ethane; N,N-dimethyl-formamide;
4.2: Lemieux-Johnson oxidation;
DOI:10.1021/jo010753j