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Total synthesis of (-)-sarain A
Becker, Michael H.,Chua, Peter,Downham, Robert,Douglas, Christopher J.,Garg, Neil K.,Hiebert, Sheldon,Jaroch, Stefan,Matsuoka, Richard T.,Middleton, Joy A.,Ng, Fay W.,Overman, Larry E.
, p. 11987 - 12002 (2008/04/04)
This article describes the details of our synthetic studies toward the complex marine alkaloid sarain A. Various strategies were conceived, setbacks encountered, and solutions developed, ultimately leading to a successful enantioselective total synthesis. Our route to (-)-sarain A features a number of key steps, including an asymmetric Michael addition to install the C4′-C3′-C7′ stereotriad, an enoxysilane-N-sulfonyliminium ion cyclization to set the C3 quaternary carbon stereocenter, and assemble the diazatricycloundecane core, a ring-closing metathesis to construct the 13-membered ring, an intramolecular Stille coupling to fashion the unsaturated 14-membered macrocycle, and a late-stage installation of the tertiary amine-aldehyde proximity interaction.
