Synfacts 2023; 19(11): 1071
DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-1752237
Synthesis of Natural Products

Synthesis of (±)-Hypnophilin

Rezensent(en):
Erick M. Carreira
,
Sven M. Papidocha
Paquette LA, *, Geng F. The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Applications of the Squarate Ester Cascade to the Expeditious Synthesis of Hypnophilin, Coriolin, and Ceratopicanol.

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002;
124: 9199-9203
DOI: 10.1021/ja020474t
 

Significance

Paquette and Geng present the synthesis of (±)-hypnophilin. The linearly fused triquinane was isolated in 1981 from the fungus Pleurotellues hypnophilus and exhibits antitumor, antibacterial, and antifungal activity. Key to the reported synthesis is rapid assembly of the triquinane skeleton through a reaction cascade from squarate ester addition product C.


Comment

Rearrangement of putative intermediate C, followed by transannular aldol reaction and hydrolysis, furnished triquinane F. Conversion to the β-chloro carbonyl and subsequent reduction under Birch conditions produced secondary alcohol G. Saegusa oxidation of enone I, followed by Weitz–Scheffer epoxidation, completed the synthesis of (±)-hypnophilin.




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14. Oktober 2023

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