Asymmetric Total Synthesis and Structural Elucidation of NFAT-68

L Wang, Y Xi, S Yang, R Zhu, Y Liang, J Chen…

Index: Wang, Lin; Gong, Jianxian; Deng, Lujiang; Xiang, Zheng; Chen, Zhixing; Wang, Yuefan; Chen, Jiahua; Yang, Zhen Organic Letters, 2009 , vol. 11, # 8 p. 1809 - 1812

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Abstract

Total synthesis of NFAT-68 (7) has been achieved and its relative stereochemistry has been determined. A key step thereof is the utilization of the chelation-controlled vinylogous Mukaiyama aldol reaction (VMAR) to stereoselectively synthesize the syn-aldol product 8.