Abstract: Syntheses of both 5, 6, 10-triepi-actinobolin and the antibiotic actinobolin are described in which a homochiral diene prepared from L-threonine is employed as a key component in a Diels-Alder reaction with an acetylenic dienophile. While the Diels-Alder reaction of this diene with methyl propiolate furnished the cycloadduct required for the synthesis of (+)-actinoblin as the minor diastereomer, the completion of the synthesis ...
[Ferreira, Paula M.T.; Maia, Hernani L.S.; Monteiro, Luis S.; Sacramento, Joana Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkin Transactions 1, 1999 , # 24 p. 3697 - 3703]