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Concise enantioselective synthesis of (-)-lasubine II
Zaja, Mirko,Blechert, Siegfried
, p. 9629 - 9634 (2007/10/03)
An enantioselective synthesis of the quinolizidine alkaloid (-)-lasubine II 1 is reported. Two different pathways to the key intermediate 2 are described. The first case involving a sequence of ring rearrangement metathesis (RRM), simple functional group interconversion operations, followed by a stereoselective cross metathesis (CM) and in the second case a domino ring opening-/ring closing-/cross metathesis step is involved. In both cases, following the metathesis reactions, exclusively the E-isomer was obtained. The final cyclisation towards the quinolizidine skeleton is achieved by an intramolecular Michael reaction. This concept represents the first example of a highly stereoselective RRM-CM combination in the synthesis of a natural product. Graphical Abstract.