Ishikawa Teruhiko, Ishii Hirokazu, Shimizu Kazuo, Nakao Hiroe, Urano Jin, Kudo Takayuki, Saito Seiki
School of Education, and Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, Okayama University, Tsushima, Okayama, Japan.
J Org Chem. 2004 Nov 12;69(23):8133-5. doi: 10.1021/jo048738c.
Diastereoselective total synthesis of isocarbacyclin, which features a fused bicyclic key intermediate available from l-ascorbic acid, is described. The key intermediate was prepared in multigram quantities by the Pauson-Khand reaction of l-ascorbic acid-based (R)-4,4-diallyl-2,2-dimethyl-5-(trimethylsilyl)ethynyl-1,3-dioxolane (3), discriminating diastereotopic groups and faces of the geminal allyl substituents.