title: Toward a synthesis of hirsutellone B by the concept of double cyclization.
abstract: This account describes a strategy for directly forming three of the six rings found in the polyketide natural product hirsutellone B via a novel cyclization cascade. The key step in our approach comprises two transformations: a large-ring-forming, nucleophilic capture of a transient acylketene and an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction, both of which occur in tandem through thermolyses of appropriately functionalized, polyunsaturated dioxinones. These thermally induced "double cyclization" cascades generate three new bonds, four contiguous stereocenters, and a significant fraction of the polycyclic architecture of hirsutellone B. The advanced macrolactam and macrolactone intermediates that were synthesized by this process possess key features of the hirsutellone framework, including the stereochemically dense decahydrofluorene core and the strained para-cyclophane ring. However, attempts to complete the carbon skeleton of hirsutellone B via transannular carbon-carbon bond formation were undermined by competitive O-alkylation reactions. This account also documents how we adapted to this undesired outcome through an evaluation of several distinct strategies for synthesis, as well as our eventual achievement of a formal total synthesis of hirsutellone B.
authors.affiliation: Frick Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University , Princeton, New Jersey, 08544, United States.
authors.forename: Keith P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Reber
authors.forename: S David
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Tilley
authors.forename: Cheryl A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Carson
authors.forename: Erik J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Sorensen
mesh_terms: D000478:Alkylation; D003500:Cyclization; D061565:Cycloaddition Reaction; D006576:Heterocyclic Compounds, 4 or More Rings / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D015394:Molecular Structure; D061065:Polyketides / Q000737:chemistry*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D006576:Heterocyclic Compounds, 4 or More Rings; D061065:Polyketides; C545159:hirsutellone B
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