A chemoenzymatic approach to the title framework is reported. The reaction sequence
starts with the whole-cell biotransformation of iodobenzene and the conversion of
the resulting homochiral metabolite into a triene that engages in an intramolecular
Diels–Alder reaction and so affording an adduct embodying the platencin core. Application
of an oxa-di-π-methane rearrangement to a derivative of this core affords a cyclopropannulated
form of the target framework; the latter is then obtained through a TMSI-mediated
cleavage of the three-membered ring. A strategy for the assembly of the enantiomeric
framework is also described.
Key words
cyclopentaindenes - cycloaddition - enzymes - photochemistry - ring-opening