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A sterically encumbered photoredox catalyst enables the unified synthesis of the classical lignan family of natural products
Alfonzo, Edwin,Beeler, Aaron B.
, p. 7746 - 7754 (2019/08/30)
Herein, we detail a unified synthetic approach to the classical lignan family of natural products that hinges on divergence from a common intermediate that was strategically identified from nature's biosynthetic blueprints. Efforts toward accessing the common intermediate through a convergent and modular approach resulted in the discovery of a sterically encumbered photoredox catalyst that can selectively generate carbonyl ylides from electron-rich epoxides. These can undergo concerted [3 + 2] dipolar cycloadditions to afford tetrahydrofurans, which were advanced (2-4 steps) to at least one representative natural product or natural product scaffold within all six subtypes in classical lignans. The application of those synthetic blueprints to the synthesis of heterolignans bearing unnatural functionality was demonstrated, which establishes the potential of this strategy to accelerate structure-activity-relationship studies of these natural product frameworks and their rich biological activity.
An Expeditious Synthetic Route to Furolignans having Two Different Aryl Groups
Anxin, Wu,Mingyi, Wang,Yonghong, Gan,Xinfu, Pan
, p. 136 - 137 (2007/10/03)
3,4-Dimethyl-2-piperonyl-5-veratrylfuran has been synthesized starting from vanillin and piperonal by employing as the key steps cross-coupling of a bromo β-oxo ester and the sodium salt of another β-oxo ester, affording a 1,4-diketone, and selective reductive removal of an allylic hydroxy group by palladium oxide.
