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Expeditious and Divergent Total Syntheses of Aspidosperma Alkaloids Exploiting Iridium(I)‐Catalyzed Generation of Reactive Enamine Intermediates
Author(s) -
Tan Peng Wen,
Seayad Jayasree,
Dixon Darren J.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
angewandte chemie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1521-3757
pISSN - 0044-8249
DOI - 10.1002/ange.201605503
Subject(s) - enamine , chemistry , total synthesis , iridium , indole test , enantioselective synthesis , aspidosperma , cycloaddition , combinatorial chemistry , lactam , catalysis , stereochemistry , organic chemistry
A new approach for the divergent total syntheses of (±)‐vincaminorine, (±)‐N‐methylquebrachamine, (±)‐quebrachamine, (±)‐minovine and (±)‐vincadifformine, each in less than 10 linear steps starting from a single δ‐lactam building block, is reported. Key to our route design is the late‐stage generation of reactive enamine functionality from stable indole‐linked δ‐lactams via a highly chemoselective iridium(I)‐catalyzed reduction. The efficiently formed secodine intermediates subsequently undergo either a formal Diels–Alder cycloaddition or a competitive Michael addition/reduction to access aspidosperma‐type alkaloids in excellent diastereoselectivities. Product selectivity could be controlled by changing the indole N‐protecting group in the reductive cyclization precursors. An asymmetric variant of this synthetic strategy for the synthesis of (+)‐20‐epi‐ibophyllidine is also described.