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A McMurry route to the dienediyne portion of models of the neocarzinostatin chromophore
Rank, Elisabeth,Brueckner, Reinhard
, p. 1045 - 1053 (2007/10/03)
The 6-ring/10-ring dienediyne model 11 of the antitumor agent neocarzinostatin chromophore 1 and its 6-ring/11-ring homolog 12 have been obtained in 41 and 18% yields, respectively, by McMurry cyclizations of ketoaldehydes 8 and 9 using TiCl3·2DME and Zn/Cu couple. Compounds 8 and 9 were obtained by rnultistep syntheses starting from the readily available acetylenic aldehydes HC=CC(CH3)2-(CH2)nCH=O (18, n = 1, 21, n = 2). Dienediyne 11 was converted into the dienediyne ketone 33 which cycloaromatized at room temperature giving the octahydrophenanthrone 35 in 16% yield.
