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Exploration of an epoxidation-ring-opening strategy for the synthesis of lyconadin A and discovery of an unexpected Payne rearrangement
Loertscher, Brad M.,Zhang, Yu,Castle, Steven L.
supporting information, p. 1179 - 1184 (2013/07/26)
In the context of synthetic efforts targeting the alkaloid lyconadin A, scalemic epoxide 25 was prepared by a highly stereoselective sequence involving a Myers alkylation and a Shi epoxidation. Ring-opening of this epoxide with a vinylcopper complex afforded alcohol 26 instead of the expected product 27. An unusual Lewis acid promoted Payne rearrangement of an α-trityloxy epoxide is proposed to account for this outcome.
