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A convergent enantioselective total synthesis of (-)- perhydrohistrionicotoxin with an intramolecular imino ene-type reaction as a key step
Tanner, David,Hagberg, Lars
, p. 7907 - 7918 (1998)
A convergent enantioselective total synthesis of the neurotoxic spirocyclic alkaloid (-)-perhydrohistrionicotoxin (2) is described. A Lewis acid-mediated intramolecular imine ene-type reaction was used for the key spirocyclisation step (14 to 3, with 3 being obtained as a single diastereoisomer). Spirocyclisation precursor 14 was prepared from enantiomerically pure ketone 13, itself available via an efficient one-pot, three-component, coupling reaction involving chiral electrophiles 9 and 10. The stereogenic centres of 9 and 10 derive in turn from Sharpless kinetic resolution, which allowed access to both chiral electrophiles from a common racemic precursor, 8.
