title: Evaluation of Furan Photooxygenation as a Device for Construction of the Zaragozic Acid (Squalestatin) Core.
abstract: A practical application of the photooxygenation chemistry of 3-substituted furans to construction of the zaragozic acid/squalestatin backbone is described. Although addition of 3-lithiofuran to the tartrate-derived aldehyde 7 proceeds without chelation control to give a 1:1 mixture of diastereomeric alcohols 8, it is demonstrated initially that ready conversion to the polyfunctional intermediate 10 is possible by sequential treatment of 9 with singlet oxygen, sodium borohydride, and triisopropylsilyl triflate. The actual enantiocontrolled route consisted of oxidation of 8 to the ketone and Wittig olefination of the latter in advance of asymmetric dihydroxylation with AD-mix-beta. Once this series of transformations had been accomplished, formation of the target product 30 was realized by an entirely comparable photooxygenation.
authors.affiliation: Evans Chemical Laboratories, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210.
authors.forename: Naoyoshi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maezaki
authors.forename: Harrie J. M.
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Gijsen
authors.forename: Li-Qiang
authors.initials: LQ
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Leo A.
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Paquette