Formal total synthesis of (+)-trehazolin. Application of an asymmetric aldol-olefin metathesis approach to the synthesis of functionalized cyclopentenes
Mt. Crimmins et Ea. Tabet, Formal total synthesis of (+)-trehazolin. Application of an asymmetric aldol-olefin metathesis approach to the synthesis of functionalized cyclopentenes, J ORG CHEM, 66(11), 2001, pp. 4012-4018
An asymmetric synthesis of the aminocyclopentitol pseudosugar of trehazolin
has been completed. The synthesis hinges on an asymmetric aldol-ring closi
ng metathesis strategy to construct the five-membered ring with control of
both the relative and absolute stereochemistry.