Design and stereoselective preparation of a new class of chiral olefin metathesis catalysts and application to enantioselective synthesis of quebrachamine: catalyst …

…, RR Schrock, AH Hoveyda

Index: Sattely, Elizabeth S.; Alexander Cortez; Moebius, David C.; Schrock, Richard R.; Hoveyda, Amir H. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2005 , vol. 127, # 23 p. 8526 - 8533

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Abstract

A total synthesis of the Aspidosperma alkaloid quebrachamine in racemic form is first described. A key catalytic ring-closing metathesis of an achiral triene is used to establish the all-carbon quaternary stereogenic center and the tetracyclic structure of the natural product; the catalytic transformation proceeds with reasonable efficiency through the use of existing achiral Ru or Mo catalysts. Ru-or Mo-based chiral olefin metathesis catalysts have proven ...