title: Synthesis of (-)-nakamurol A and assignment of absolute configuration of diterpenoid (+)-nakamurol A.
abstract: The total synthesis of the enantiomer of the marine sponge diterpenoid nakamurol A and determination of the absolute configuration of this natural product are reported. This first synthetic entry to thelepogane-type diterpenoids involves the use of the bicyclic enone (-)-3, which after a tandem difunctionalization process and elongation of the side chain leads to the formation of the ketone (-)-13. From (-)-13, two approaches to ent-nakamurol A (1) are reported: the straightforward but nonselective way, by reaction with vinylmagnesium bromide, and a longer but stereocontrolled route, through the primary allylic alcohol 20, which is submitted to a Sharpless epoxidation followed by a tellurium-promoted reductive-epoxide ring-opening cascade reaction.
authors.affiliation: Laboratori de Química Orgànica, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Joan XXIII s/n, 08028-Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Díaz
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cuesta
authors.forename: Asensio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: González
authors.forename: Josep
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bonjoch
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004224:Diterpenes / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D011161:Porifera; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D004224:Diterpenes; C482351:nakamurol A