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A new strategy for the synthesis of (+)-vernolepin related compounds: an unusual sulfene elimination leads to the 2-oxa-cis-decalin skeleton

✍ Scribed by Alejandro F Barrero; J.Enrique Oltra; Mı́riam Álvarez


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
French
Weight
102 KB
Volume
41
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-4039

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✦ Synopsis


A new strategy for the synthesis of (+)-vernolepin (1), (+)-vernodalin (2), and (+)-8-deoxyvernolepin (3), from the accessible germacrolides (+)-salonitenolide ( 4) and (+)-costunolide (5), has been developed. The key steps in the synthesis are a Cope rearrangement from the germacradiene to the elemadiene skeleton, the cyclization of a trans-fused d-lactone from an epoxy ester, and an unusual sulfene elimination, which promotes a reaction cascade leading to the 2-oxa-cis-decalin skeleton.


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