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A new method for the preparation of non-terminal alkynes: Application to the total syntheses of tulearin A and C
Lehr, Konrad,Schulthoff, Saskia,Ueda, Yoshihiro,Mariz, Ronaldo,Leseurre, Lucie,Gabor, Barbara,Fürstner, Alois
, p. 219 - 227 (2015/02/19)
Lactones are known to react with the reagent generated in situ from CCl4 and PPh3 in a Wittig-type fashion to give gem-dichloro-olefin derivatives. Such compounds are now shown to undergo reductive alkylation on treatment with organolithium reagents RLi to furnish acetylene derivatives bearing the substituent R at their termini (R=Me, n-, sec-, tert-alkyl, silyl); the reaction can be catalyzed with either Cu(acac)2 or Fe(acac)3/1,2-diaminobenzene. Two alkynol derivatives prepared in this way from readily accessible lactone precursors served as the key building blocks for the total syntheses of the cytotoxic marine macrolides tulearin A (1) and C (2). The assembly of these fragile targets hinged upon ring closing alkyne metathesis (RCAM) followed by a formal trans-reduction of the resulting cycloalkynes via trans-hydrosilylation/protodesilylation.
