title: Enantioselective Diels-Alder approach to C-3-oxygenated angucyclinones from (SS)-2-(p-tolysulfinyl)-1,4-naphthoquinone.
abstract: Chiral racemic vinylcyclohexenes 2, bearing oxygenated substituents and/or a methyl group at the C-5 position of the cyclohexene ring, were submitted to Diels-Alder reactions with enantiomerically pure (SS)-(2-p-tolylsulfinyl)-1,4-naphthoquinone [(+)-1]. The domino cycloaddition/pyrolytic sulfoxide elimination process led to the formation of enantiomerically enriched angularly tetracyclic quinones anti-6 and syn-7, which were obtained from the kinetic resolution of the racemic diene. In all cases, (SS)-(2-p-tolylsulfinyl)-1,4-naphthoquinone reacted from the less hindered face of the more reactive s-cis conformation, to form products in good enantiomeric excesses. Steric effects and torsional interactions in the corresponding approaches account for the observed pi-facial diastereoselectivities at both partners. The usefulness of this methodology is illustrated with the four-step totally asymmetric synthesis of the C-3-oxygenated angucyclinone derivative (-)-8-deoxytetrangomycin 10 in 26% overall yield and with 50% enantiomeric purity.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química Orgánica (C-I), Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain. carmen.carreno@uam.es
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Carreño
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Urbano
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Di Vitta
mesh_terms: D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D009285:Naphthoquinones / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic; D009285:Naphthoquinones