54110-95-1Relevant articles and documents
Stereoselective Synthesis of Fused Vinylcyclopropanes by Intramolecular Tsuji-Trost Cascade Cyclization
Braun, John,Ari?ns, Maxim I.,Matsuo, Bianca T.,De Vries, Steven,Van Wordragen, Ellen D. H.,Ellenbroek, Brecht D.,Vande Velde, Christophe M. L.,Orru, Romano V. A.,Ruijter, Eelco
, p. 6611 - 6615 (2018)
A stereoselective intramolecular Tsuji-Trost cascade cyclization of (homo)allylic vicinal diacetates with a pendant β-ketoamide or related carbon nucleophile to give γ-lactam-fused vinylcyclopropanes is reported. In addition to two new rings, the products contain three new C-C stereocenters (two of which are quaternary) with a 9:1 dr. Moreover, the reaction proceeds in >94% enantiospecificity with optically enriched starting materials, using an inexpensive carbohydrate as the source of chirality.
Metal-Free Transfer Hydroiodination of C-C Multiple Bonds
Chen, Weiqiang,Walker, Johannes C. L.,Oestreich, Martin
supporting information, p. 1135 - 1140 (2019/01/11)
The design and a gram-scale synthesis of a bench-stable cyclohexa-1,4-diene-based surrogate of gaseous hydrogen iodide are described. By initiation with a moderately strong Br?nsted acid, hydrogen iodide is transferred from the surrogate onto C-C multiple bonds such as alkynes and allenes without the involvement of free hydrogen iodide. The surrogate fragments into toluene and ethylene, easy-to-remove volatile waste. This hydroiodination reaction avoids precarious handling of hydrogen iodide or hydroiodic acid. By this, a broad range of previously unknown or difficult-to-prepare vinyl iodides can be accessed in stereocontrolled fashion.
Lanosterol biosynthesis: The critical role of the methyl-29 group of 2,3-oxidosqualene for the correct folding of this substrate and for the construction of the five-membered D ring
Hoshino, Tsutomu,Chiba, Akifumi,Abe, Naomi
supporting information, p. 13108 - 13116 (2013/01/15)
Lanosterol synthase catalyzes the polycyclization reaction of (3S)-2,3-oxidosqualene (1) into tetracyclic lanosterol 2 by folding 1 in a chair-boat-chair-chair conformation. 27-Nor- and 29-noroxidosqaulenes (7 and 8, respectively) were incubated with this enzyme to investigate the role of the methyl groups on 1 for the polycyclization cascade. Compound 7 afforded two enzymatic products, namely, 30-norlanosterol (12) and 26-normalabaricatriene (13; 12/13 9:1), which were produced through the normal chair-boat-chair-chair conformation and an atypical chair-chair-boat conformation, respectively. Compound 8 gave two products 14 and 15 (14/15 4:5), which were generated by the normal and the unusual polycyclization pathways through a chair-chair-boat-chair conformation, respectively. It is remarkable that the twist-boat structure for the B-ring formation was changed to an energetically favored chair structure for the generation of 15. Surprisingly, 14 and 15 consisted of a novel 6,6,6,6-fused tetracyclic ring system, thus differing from the 6,6,6,5-fused lanosterol skeleton. Together with previous results, we conclude that the methyl-29 group is critical to the correct folding of 1, with lesser contributions from the other branched methyl groups, such as methyl-26, -27, and -28. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the methyl-29 group has a crucial role in the formation of the five-membered D ring of the lanosterol scaffold. Ringing in the changes: The incubation of 1 with porcine-liver cyclase afforded new nortriterpenes 2 and 3 with 6,6,6,6-fused tetracyclic skeletons, which were produced by chair-boat-chair-chair and chair-chair-boat-chair conformations, respectively (see scheme), thus indicating that the 29-methyl group is critical to the correct folding of oxidosqualene and to the formation of the five-membered D ring for lanosterol biosynthesis. Copyright