M. Toyota et al., INOC REACTION IN ALKALOID SYNTHESIS - STEREOCONTROLLED FORMAL TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF (-PUMILIOTOXIN-C()), Heterocycles, 45(1), 1997, pp. 147-156
A formal total synthesis of (+)-pumiliotoxin C (1), the antipode of th
e arrow poison frog toxin, starting from the chirally homogeneous (1'S
, 6'S)-2-(6'-benzyloxymethyl-2'-cyclohexyl)ethanol (2) is described. T
he synthesis features the intramolecular nitrile oxide cycloaddition (
INOC) reaction of the nitro olefin (5) to furnish the isoxazoline (6).