𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

First Total Synthesis of Prionoid E, A Bioactive Rearranged Secoabietane Diterpene Quinone from Salvia prionitis

✍ Scribed by Fei Deng; Jun Xu; Min Zhao; Hong-Ying Liu; Yang Ye; Jin-Sheng Zhang


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
German
Weight
196 KB
Volume
94
Category
Article
ISSN
0018-019X

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Abstract

The first total synthesis of prionoid E (1), a rearranged secoabietane diterpene quinone isolated from Salvia prionitis, was achieved efficiently by means of Wacker oxidation (Scheme 5) and aldol condensation (Scheme 7) as the key steps in the synthetic sequence. Thus 1 was prepared in 15 steps in 3.7% yield starting on one hand from anisole (=methoxybenzene) and methylsuccinic anhydride (=dihydro‐3‐methylfuran‐2,5‐dione) via 4 (Scheme 3 and 5), and on the other hand from 2‐hydroxy‐2‐methylpropanoic acid via 5 (Scheme 6).