14-Noreudesma-4,11-dien-3,9-diones′ analogues were treated with DDQ in dioxane and afforded the rearranged aromatic products. The similar compounds to eudesma-4,11-dien-3,9-diones had no reaction. 9-Actoxy-14-noreudesma-4,11-dien-3-ones, 9-actoxy-eudesma-4,11-dien-3-ones and their analogues yielded the normal 1,2-dehydro-products. The mechanism of the rearrangement was discussed.
In the sesquiterpenic family, β-dihydroagarofuran and a large number of eudesmanes have an oxygenated func tional group at C1. [1] Although considerable efforts have been devoted to the total synthesis of eudesmane β-dihydroagarofuran and some germacrane sesquiterpenoids starting from the corresponding eudesmane over the pastdecades, the introduction of C1 oxygenated functional group still represents significant challenge.……
CHEN Jin-Chun ZHENG Guo-Jun FANG Li-Jing LI Yu-Lin
Baker抯 yeast mediated reduction of optically active diketone is described. The two keto groups are efficiently dif-ferentiated and the ee value of the recovered material is considerably raised. It affords highly optically active key intermediates efficiently for the synthesis of natural polyhydroxylated agarofuran products.
An enhancive synthesis of (±)-1β, 11-diol-4-en-eudesmol, starting from 2-chloroacrylonitrile, is described. The effect of temperature on the Diels-Alder reaction of 2-chloroacrylonitrile with 2-methylfuran and the condition of cationic cyclization of diene were discussed in detail.
Dehydrogenation of 9-hydroxy decalinic enones and analogs with DDQ resulted in a formal dienone-phenol type rearrangement via B-ring cleavage, while the corresponding dienone acetates underwent base-catalyzed formal dienone-phenol type rearrangement analogously.
The first total synthesis of （+）-5α-hydroxy-isopterocarpolone （1）, an oxygenated eudesmane isolated from Chinese folk medicine Artemisia eriopoda, starting from （+）-dihydrocarvone（2） was described. Compound 4 was stereoselectively prepared from compound 2 in three steps according to reference-. The treatment of tosylhydrazone 5, which was formed via the reaction of compound 4 and TsNHNH2 catalyzed by BF3-5Et2O, with an excess of n-butyllithium gave triene 6. Oxidation of triene 6 with singlet oxygen afforded the desired endo-peroxide 7 as a single product. Reductive cleavage of peroxide 7 with K2CO3 gave α-rotunol 3, a natural eudesmane firstly isolated in 1969. Hydrolysis of α-rotunol 3 with 10% sulfuric acid afforded （+）-5α-hydroxy-isopterocarpolone （1）. The structures of all the compounds were confirmed by IR, MS and NMR spectra.
The first total synthesis of natural 6β-cinnamoyloxy-1α-hydroxy-5, 10-bis-epi- eudesm-4-en-3-one （1）, a highly complex natural eudesmane, was described.
Chen ZHANG Guo Jun ZHEN Jin Chun CHEN Li Jing FANG Yu Lin LI
