AN ABBREVIATED, HIGHLY STEREOCONTROLLED ROUTE TO PRECURSORS OF TAXOL - ELABORATION OF A FULLY FUNCTIONALIZED C-RING BY MEANS OF INTRAMOLECULAR ALDOL CYCLIZATION
La. Paquette et al., AN ABBREVIATED, HIGHLY STEREOCONTROLLED ROUTE TO PRECURSORS OF TAXOL - ELABORATION OF A FULLY FUNCTIONALIZED C-RING BY MEANS OF INTRAMOLECULAR ALDOL CYCLIZATION, Journal of organic chemistry, 60(24), 1995, pp. 7857-7864
The asymmetric synthesis of an advanced taxol precursor is reported. T
he scheme involves the conversion of (R)-glyceraldehyde acetonide into
the Q-vinyl iodide 2, transmetalation of this intermediate, and 1,2-a
ddition to the D-camphor derivative 11 from the endo direction. This c
onvergent coupling gives rise to exo alcohol 12, which undergoes anion
ic oxy-Cope rearrangement at low temperatures. In situ methylation of
the resulting enolate anion delivers 13, which is chemoselectively tra
nsformed into aldehyde 18. In a key step, the aldol cyclization of 18
proceeds without beta-elimination to deliver a tricyclic product in wh
ich proper absolute configuration is adopted at the two stereogenic ce
nters being newly introduced. Following protection of the hydroxyl sub
stituent as in 19b,the alpha-hydroxy ketone 21 is heated with aluminum
tri-tert-butoxide in benzene in order to effect near-quantitative rea
rrangement to the taxol-like isomer 22.