Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Department of Molecular and Chemical Life Sciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Chirality. 2020 Apr;32(4):423-430. doi: 10.1002/chir.23172. Epub 2020 Jan 30.
A facile, efficient, and scalable synthesis of optically pure coronafacic acid by resolution of racemic coronafacic acid obtained using an improved version of Watson's method has been developed. By optimizing the boron-mediated aldol reaction of Watson, we were able to prepare 2.1 g of racemic coronafacic acid. This was coupled with (S)-4-isopropyl-2-oxazolidinone to give a mixture of diastereomeric coronafacyl oxazolidinones, which were readily separable by silica-gel column chromatography to give 630 mg of optically pure (+)-coronafacic acid.
已开发出一种通过拆分使用 Watson 方法的改进版本获得的外消旋 coronafacic 酸来简便、高效且可规模化合成光学纯 coronafacic 酸的方法。通过优化 Watson 的硼介导的Aldol 反应,我们能够制备 2.1 g 的外消旋 coronafacic 酸。然后,将其与(S)-4-异丙基-2-恶唑烷酮偶联,得到非对映异构体混合物的 coronafacyl 恶唑烷酮,通过硅胶柱色谱法很容易将其分离,得到 630 mg 的光学纯(+)-coronafacic 酸。