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Divergent total synthesis of triptolide, triptonide, tripdiolide, 16-hydroxytriptolide, and their analogues
Xu, Hongtao,Tang, Huanyu,Feng, Huijin,Li, Yuanchao
, p. 10110 - 10122 (2015/02/19)
A divergent route was developed for the formal total synthesis of triptolide, triptonide, and tripdiolide, as well as a total synthesis of 16-hydroxytriptolide and their analogues in an enantioselective form. Common advanced intermediate 5 was concisely assembled by employing an indium(III)-catalyzed cationic polycyclization reaction and a palladium-catalyzed carbonylation-lactone formation reaction as key steps. This advanced intermediate was readily converted to the above natural products by using palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling or the Claisen rearrangement reaction as key steps. Additionally, preliminary structure-cytotoxic activity relationship studies of C13 suggested that it might be a new modification site that could still retain the cytotoxicity.