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An example of a chiral non-racemic carbanion as versatile synthon in the asymmetric synthesis of polysubstituted γ-lactones

✍ Scribed by Carmen Ma Rodríguez; Miguel A. Ramírez; Victor S. Martín


Book ID
104216074
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1992
Tongue
French
Weight
242 KB
Volume
33
Category
Article
ISSN
0040-4039

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✦ Synopsis


The application of a choral non-racemic carbanion generated from enantiomerically enriched a-sulfonyl-y-Iactones to the asymmetric synthesis of highly substituted and fused plactones is described.

The synthesis of butenolides and saturated y-lactones as optically active fragments is currently receiving considerable attention considering their utility as useful synthons for the synthesis of biologically active natural products.1 Very recently we have described a new approach to the stereocontrolled synthesis of such units in enantiomerically enriched form by an intramolecular Michael addition involving chiial non-racemic thiophenylacetates of y-hydroxy-@-unsaturated esters.2 This thermodynamically controlled process provided access to the all h-am substituted y-lactones with excellent stereocontrol.