103531-60-8Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Synthesis of the Lolium Alkaloids
Tufariello, Joseph J.,Meckler, Harold,Winzenberg, Kevin
, p. 3556 - 3557 (1986)
The total synthesis of loline and norloline using a nitrone-based methodology is reported herein.
An efficient synthesis of loline alkaloids
Cakmak, Mesut,Mayer, Peter,Trauner, Dirk
supporting information; experimental part, p. 543 - 545 (2012/04/04)
Loline (1) is a small alkaloid that, in spite of its simple-looking structure, has posed surprising challenges to synthetic chemists. It has been known for more than a century and has been the subject of extensive biological investigations, but only two total syntheses have been achieved to date. Here, we report an asymmetric total synthesis of loline that, with less then ten steps, is remarkably short. Our synthesis incorporates a Sharpless epoxidation, a Grubbs olefin metathesis and an unprecedented transannular aminobromination, which converts an eight-membered cyclic carbamate into a bromopyrrolizidine. The synthesis is marked by a high degree of chemo- and stereoselectivity and gives access to several members of the loline alkaloid family. It delivers sufficient material to support a programme aimed at studying the complex interactions between plants, fungi, insects and bacteria brokered by loline alkaloids.
