Published September 29, 2005 | Version Accepted Version + Supplemental Material
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Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Tricyclic Myrmicarin Alkaloids

  • 1. ROR icon Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abstract

An enantioselective gram-scale synthesis of a key dihydroindolizine intermediate for the preparation of myrmicarin alkaloids is described. Key transformations in this convergent approach include a stereospecific palladium-catalyzed N-vinylation of a pyrrole with a vinyl triflate, a copper-catalyzed enantioselective conjugate reduction of a β-pyrrolyl enoate, and a regioselective Friedel−Crafts reaction. The synthesis of optically active and isomerically pure samples of (4aR)-myrmicarins 215A, 215B, and 217 in addition to their respective C4a-epimers is presented.

Additional Information

© 2005 American Chemical Society. Received July 11, 2005. M.M. is a Dale F. and Betty Ann Frey Damon Runyon Scholar supported by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (DRS-39-04). M.M. is a Firmenich Assistant Professor of Chemistry. A.E.O. acknowledges a Robert T. Haslam Presidential Graduate Fellowship. We acknowledge generous financial support by the donors of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, MIT, Amgen Inc., and NIH-NIGMS (GM074825).

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PMC2992882
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76808
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CaltechAUTHORS:20170421-092258232

Funding

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
DRS-39-04
Robert T. Haslam Presidential Graduate Fellowship
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
MIT
Amgen Inc.
NIH
GM074825

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