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Formal total synthesis of (+)-diepoxin σ
Wipf, Peter,Jung, Jae-Kyu
, p. 6319 - 6337 (2007/10/03)
The highly oxygenated antifungal anticancer natural product (±)-diepoxin σ was prepared in 10 steps and in 15% overall yield from O-methylnaphthazarin. Highlights of the synthetic work include an Ullmann coupling and a possibly biomimetic oxidative spirocyclization for the introduction of the naphthalene ketal as well as the use of a retro-Diels-Alder reaction to unmask the reactive enone moiety in the naphthoquinone bisepoxide ring system. A novel highly bulky chiral binaphthol ligand was developed for a boron-mediated Diels-Alder reaction that constitutes a formal asymmetric total synthesis of (+)-diepoxin σ.
