Academic literature on the topic 'Bicyclo [5. 3. 1] undécèn-3 dione-2,6'

Scott A. Snyder at Columbia University demonstrated (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 17714) that tetrahydrofuran 1 could be readily converted to oxocane 2 by treatment with the BDSB reagent developed in his laboratory. Reduction of 2 with DIBAL-H initiated a second ring closure by mesylate displacement to form the bicycle 3, which represented a formal total synthesis of laurefucin 4. Andrew L. Lawrence at the Australian National University found (Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 4537) that upon treatment with catalytic base, rengyolone 6, which was prepared in one pot from phenol 5, could be converted to the natural products incarviditone 7 and incarvilleatone 8. This demonstration provides strong support for the postulated biomimetic formation of these natural products. Shuanhu Gao at East China Normal University reported (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 7786) the total synthesis of (+)-fusarisetin A 12 via biomimetic oxidation of equisetin 10 to produce the peroxy compound 11, followed by reduction. The bicyclic carbon skeleton of equisetin 10 was synthesized by intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction of trienyl aldehyde 9. The ellagitannin natural product (+)-davidiin 15 possesses a glucopyranose core with the unusual 1C4 (tetraaxial) conformation due to the presence of a biaryl bridge between two of the galloyl groups. Hidetoshi Yamada at Kwansei Gakuin University constructed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 8026) this bridge by oxidation with CuCl2 of 13, in which the three sterically demanding triisopropylsiloxy groups enforce the requisite tetraaxial conformation. John A. Porco, Jr. at Boston University applied (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 13108) his asymmetric [3+2] photocycloaddition chemistry to the total synthesis of the aglain natural product (+)-ponapensin 20. Irradiation of hydroxyflavone 16 with methyl cinnamate 17 in the presence of diol 18 afforded the entire core framework 19 of ponapensin 20, which was accessed in just a few further synthetic transformations. Finally, Silas P. Cook at Indiana University reported (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134,13577) a five-pot total synthesis of the antimalarial (+)-artemisinin 25. Cyclohexenone 21 was converted by simple operations to aldehyde 22. This aldehyde was then engaged in a [4+2] cycloaddition with the silyl ketene acetal 23 to produce, after an impressive Wacker oxidation of the disubstituted olefin, bicycle 24.

(-)-Glycinoeclepin A 3 is effective at pg/mL concentrations as a hatch-stimulating agent for the soybean cyst nematode. Approaching the synthesis of 3, Keiji Tanino of Hokkaido University envisioned (Chemistry Lett. 2010, 39, 835) the convergent coupling of the allylic tosylate 2 with the bridgehead anion 1. The assembly of the fragment 2 was particularly challenging, because the synthesis would require not just the establishment of the two adjacent cyclic quaternary centers but also control of the relative configuration on the sidechain. The preparation of 1 began with the prochiral diketone 3. Enantioselective reduction of the mono enol ether 4 set the absolute configuration of 5. Iodination followed by cyclization then completed the assembly of 1. The construction of the bicyclic tosylate 2 began with m-methyl anisole 7. Following the Rubottom procedure, Birch reduction followed by mild hydrolysis gave the ketone 8. Epoxidation followed by β-elimination delivered the racemic 9, which was exposed to lipase to give, after seven days, the residual alcohol in 40% yield and high ee. The sidechain nitrile was prepared from the diol 12. Homologation gave the nitrile 14, which was equilibrated to the more stable enol ether 15. The two cyclic quaternary centers of 3 were set in a single step by the conjugate addition of the anion of 16 to the crystalline enone 11. Mild hydrolysis of 17 gave the keto aldehyde, which underwent aldol condensation to give the enone 18. The hydroboration of 19 followed by coupling of the intermediate organoborane with 20 delivered 21 with 94:6 relative diastereocontrol. Formylation of the enone 22 followed by triflation and reduction then led to 2. Altough the ketone 1 could be deprotonated with LDA, the only product observed, even at –78°C, was the derived aldol dimer. The metalated dimethylhydrazone 25, in contrast, coupled smoothly with 2 to give, after hydrolyis, the desired adduct 26. Pd-mediated carboxylation of the enol triflate followed by selective oxidative cleavage and hydrolysis then completed the synthesis of (-)-glycinoecleptin A 3.

(+)-Daphmanidin E 3, isolated from the leaves of Daphniphyllum teijsmanni, shows moderate vasorelaxant activity on the rat aorta. Considering the curiously compact structure of 3, Erick M. Carreira of ETH Zürich chose (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 11501) to start the synthesis from the enantiomerically pure bicyclic diketone 2. The mono enolate of 2 was readily prepared, but the steric bulk of the ketal of 4 was needed to direct the subsequent hydroboration. Indeed, the alkene of 5 was so congested that excess BH3 at elevated temperature was required. Under those conditions, the esters were also partially reduced, so the reduction was completed with Dibal to deliver the crystalline triol 6. After protection of the alcohols, the remaining carbon atoms of 3 were added by sequential Claisen rearrangements. O-Alkylation with 7 delivered 8, which rearranged with 10:1 diastereoselectivity. After O-allylation, the second Claisen rearrangement led to 9 as the only isolable product. Selective hydroboration of 9 led to 10, which was deprotected, then dehydrated following the Grieco protocol. Functional group manipulation of 11 led to the aldehyde 12, which was condensed with nitromethane to give 13. Direct conjugate addition to 13 gave at best a 1:3 preference for the wrong diastereomer. With a chiral Cu catalyst, this was improved to 5:1 in favor of the desired diastereomer. Ozonolysis of 14 followed by selective reduction of the aldehyde gave the primary alcohol, which was carried onto the iodide. Elimination with DBU then delivered 15, setting the stage for the key intramolecular bond connection. After extensive exploration, it was found that irradiation of 15 in the presence of a catalytic amount of a cobaloxime catalyst and a stoichiometric amount of Hünig’s base gave clean cyclization to 16. The last carbocyclic ring of (+)-daphmanidin E 3 was closed by intramolecular aldol addition of the aldehyde of 17 to the ketone, followed by dehydration. The seemingly simple intramolecular imine formation to prepare the natural product, initially elusive, was effected by heating the ammonium salt in ethanol. The Co-catalyzed cyclization of 15 to 16 is particularly striking.

The Daphniphyllum alkaloids are a diverse group, some of which exhibit potent bio­logical activity. Amos B. Smith III of the University of Pennsylvania envisioned (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 870) the preparation of the bicyclo[2.2.2] core of (−)-calyciphylline N 3 by the intramolecular Diels–Alder cyclization of 1 to 2, with the silicon of 2 a surrogate for the secondary alcohol of 3. Following the precedent of Mori (Tetrahedron Asymm. 2005, 16, 685), the requi­site secondary center of 1 was set by methylation of the anion derived from the Evans acyl oxazolidinone 4. Reductive removal of the oxazolidinone led to the alcohol 5, that was reduced under Birch conditions, then isomerized with base to the desired conjugated diene 6. This was silylated with the alkenyl silane 7 to give the triene 1. Direct thermal cyclization of 1 gave a mixture of all four possible diastereomers of the cycloadduct. Fortunately, the Lewis acid-activated cyclization delivered 2 as the dominant diastereomer. To differentiate the two ends of the alkene, the ester of 2 was extended to the alco­hol 8. Epoxidation occurred from the more open face of the alkene, setting the stage for intramolecular opening and oxidation to give 9. Reduction with SmI2 and protec­tion then completed the preparation of the ketone 10. The third quaternary center of 3 was constructed by acetylation of 10 followed by Pd-catalyzed allylation, to give 11. On exposure to LDA, the derived iodide 12 smoothly cyclized to the cycloheptanone 13, the structure of which was confirmed by X-ray analysis. The alkene of 13 was converted to the primary alcohol, which was protected. The aryl lithium 14 then was used to selectively open the cyclic silyl ether, to give 15. Coupling with phthalimide followed by carbonylative vinylation of the derived vinyl triflate delivered the dienone 16. Exposure to HBF4 effected the desired Nazarov cyclization, and at the same time converted the aryl silane to the fluorosilane, set for the Tamao oxidation that revealed the secondary alcohol. The two alcohols were sequentially protected to give 17. Direct oxidation of the primary silyl ether gave the aldehyde.

(-)-Cernuine 3 falls in the subset of the Lycopodium alkaloids that feature a bicyclic aminal core. There had not been a total synthesis of this class of alkaloids until the recent (Organic Lett. 2008, 10, 1987) work of Hiromitsu Takayama of Chiba University. The key step in this synthesis was a diastereoselective intramolecular reductive amination, converting 1 to 2. As is apparent from the 3-D projection, (-)-cernuine 3 has a tricyclic trans-anti-trans aminal core, with an appended six-membered ring, both branches of which are axial on the core. While the branch that is part of the aminal could be expected to equilibrate, the other branch had to be deliberately installed. The synthesis began with (+)-citronellal 4, each enantiomer of which is commercially available in bulk. After protection and ozonolysis, the first singly-aminated stereogenic center was installed by enantioselective, and therefore diastereoselective, addition of 5 to the azodicarboxylate 6, mediated by the organocatalyst 7. Reductive cleavage of the N-N bond followed by acetal methanolysis converted 8 to 9. Ionization followed by allyl silane addition then delivered 11, having the requisite axial alkyl branch. The next two tasks were the assembly of the second of the four rings of 3, and the construction of the second single-aminated stereogenic center. The ring was assembled by deprotection of 11 followed by acylation with acryloyl chloride, to give 12. Grubbs cyclization followed by hydrogenation then led to 13. Homologation of 13 to the aldehyde 14 set the stage for condensation with the camphor-derived tertiary amine 15, following the protocol developed by Kobayashi. Sequential imine formation, aza-Cope rearrangement, and hydrolysis led to 1 in 94% de. One could envision reduction of the lactam carbonyl of 1 to an aldehyde equivalent, that would then, under acidic conditions, condense to form the desired aminal 2. This approach was, however, not successful. As an alternative, conditions were developed to convert 1 to the amidine 16. Reduction then proceeded with the expected high diastereocontrol, to give the cis 1,3-fused aminal 2. This was not isolated, but was directly acylated with acryloyl chloride, to 17.

Weiping Tang at the University of Wisconsin, Madison reported (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 12434) the total synthesis of the tropone-containing norditerpenes hain­anolidol 6 and harringtonolide 7 by making use of a strategic [5+2] oxidopyrylium cycloaddition. First, the known ketone 1 was converted through a number of steps to cycloaddition precursor 2. Treatment with DBU then effected the key cycloaddition to furnish the complex polycyclic compound 3. Additional manipulations revealed struc­ture 4 with the lactone ring in place. The tropone ring of the natural structures was con­structed by reaction of the cycloheptadiene moiety of 4 with singlet oxygen followed by Kornblum- DeLaMare rearrangement with DBU to afford ketone 5. Double elimination using TsOH then produced hainanolidol 6. The free hydroxyl of 6 was engaged in a C–H-functionalizing cyclization using Pd(OAc)₄ to yield harringtonolide 7 as well. Hanfeng Ding at Zhejiang University developed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 13256) a concise route to indoxamycin F 12 (as well as the related indoxamy­cins A and C). The complex intermediate 9 was accessed in only four steps from the bicyclic ketone 8, which in turn was prepared by a route involving an Ireland–Claisen rearrangement and a reductive 1,6-enyne cyclization (not shown). An impressive oxa-conjugate addition/methylenation reaction to produce 11 was accomplished by treat­ment of 9 with Grignard 10 followed by Eschenmoser’s salt. Some final decorative work then led to indoxamycin F 12. The strained polycyclophane natural product cavicularin 18 was synthesized in enantioenriched form by an innovative strategy reported (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 10472) by Keisuke Suzuki at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

There has recently been a great deal of interest in the synthesis of natural products that promote neurite outgrowth. Emmanuel A. Theodorakis of the University of California, San Diego described (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 3672) the preparation of one of the most potent (10 nM) of these, (–)-jiadifenolide 3. Fittingly, a key transformation en route to this highly oxygenated seco-prezizaane was the oxidative rearrangement of 1 to 2. The starting point for the synthesis was the commercially available diketone 4. Allylation followed by addition to 5 gave the prochiral triketone 6. Enantioselective aldol condensation following the Tu/Zhang protocol then delivered the bicyclic enone 7. Alkylation to give 8 proceeded with high diastereoselectivity, perhaps controlled by the steric bulk of the silyloxy group. Exposure of the protected ketone to the McMurry reagent PhNTf2 gave the enol triflate 9, which smoothly carbonylated to the lactone 10. Epoxidation with alkaline hydrogen peroxide followed by oxidation gave the carboxylic acid, which spontaneously opened the epoxide, leading to the bis lactone 1. With 1 in hand, the stage was set for the key oxidative rearrangement to 2. It was envisioned that epoxidation would generate the cis-fused 11, which on oxidation would undergo acid-catalyzed elimination to give 12. The newly freed OH would then be in position to engage the lactone carbonyl, leading to 2. In the event, oxidation of the epoxide with the Dess-Martin reagent required sonication for 2 h. The rearranged lactone, even though it was susceptible to further oxidation, was secured in 38% overall yield from 1. After hydrogenation and protection, preparation of the enol triflate 13 from the congested cyclopentanone necessitated the use of the more reactive Comins reagent. Hydrogenation of the trisubstituted alkene from coupling with Me3Al then required 90 atmospheres of H2 overpressure. Hydroxylation of the lactone 14 with the Davis oxaziridine followed by further oxidation to the ketone with the Jones reagent and deprotection then completed the synthesis of (–)-jiadifenolide 3.

En route to sarcandralactone A 3, Scott A. Snyder of Scripps Florida effected (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 7842) Diels–Alder cycloaddition of the activated enone 1 to the Danishefsky diene. On exposure to trifluoroacetic acid, the adduct was unraveled to the ene dione 2. Michael N. Paddon-Row of the University of New South Wales and Michael S. Sherburn of the Australian National University prepared (Nature Chem. 2015, 7, 82) the allene 4 in enantiomerically-pure form. Sequential cycloaddition with 5 followed by 6 gave an adduct that was decarbonylated to 7. Further cycloaddition with nitro­ethylene 8 led to the pseudopterosin (−)-G-J aglycone 9. The protein–protein interaction inhibitor JBIR-22 12 contains a quaternary α-amino acid pendant to a bicyclic core. Nicholas J. Westwood of the University of St. Andrews set (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 4046) the absolute configuration of the core 11 by using an organocatalyst to activate the cyclization of 10. Metal catalysts can also be used to set the absolute configuration of a Diels–Alder cycloaddition. In the course of establishing the structure of the marine natural prod­uct muironolide A 15, Armen Zakarian of the University of California, Santa Barbara cyclized (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 5907) the enol form of 13 preferentially to the diastereomer 14. Unactivated intramolecular Diels–Alder cycloadditions have been carried out with more and more challenging substrates. A key step in the synthesis (Chem. Asian. J. 2015, 10, 427) of (−)-platencin 18 by Martin G. Banwell, also of the Australian National University, was the cyclization of 16 to 17. In another illustration of the power of the unactivated intramolecular Diels–Alder reaction, Thomas J. Maimone of the University of California, Berkeley cyclized (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 1223) the tetraene 19 to the tricycle 20. Allylic chlo­rination followed by reductive cyclization converted 20 to chatancin 21.