Hou Min, Xu Mengmeng, Yang Baochao, He Haibing, Gao Shuanhu
Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering East China Normal University 3663 North Zhongshan Road Shanghai 200062 China
Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, East China Normal University 3663 North Zhongshan Road Shanghai 200062 China.
Chem Sci. 2021 Apr 27;12(21):7575-7582. doi: 10.1039/d1sc00883h.
All-carbon quaternary stereocenters are ubiquitous in natural products and significant in drug molecules. However, construction of all-carbon stereocenters is a challenging project due to their congested chemical environment. And, when vicinal all-carbon quaternary stereocenters are present in one molecule, they will dramatically increase its synthetic challenge. A chiral titanium promoted enantioselective photoenolization/Diels-Alder (PEDA) reaction allows largely stereohindered tetra-substituted dienophiles to interact with highly active photoenolized hydroxy--quinodimethanes, delivering fused or spiro polycyclic rings bearing vicinal all-carbon quaternary centers in excellent enantiomeric excess through one-step operation. This newly developed enantioselective PEDA reaction will inspire other advances in asymmetric excited-state reactions, and could be used in the total synthesis of structurally related complex natural products or drug-like molecules for drug discovery.
全碳季碳立体中心在天然产物中普遍存在,在药物分子中也具有重要意义。然而,由于其拥挤的化学环境,构建全碳立体中心是一项具有挑战性的工作。而且,当一个分子中存在相邻的全碳季碳立体中心时,会极大地增加其合成难度。手性钛促进的对映选择性光烯醇化/狄尔斯-阿尔德(PEDA)反应能使空间位阻较大的四取代亲双烯体与高活性的光烯醇化羟基-醌二甲烷相互作用,通过一步操作以优异的对映体过量得到带有相邻全碳季碳中心的稠合或螺环多环。这种新开发的对映选择性PEDA反应将推动不对称激发态反应的其他进展,并可用于结构相关的复杂天然产物或类药物分子的全合成以用于药物发现。