An efficient, general asymmetric synthesis of carbocyclic nucleosides: application of an asymmetric
M T Crimmins1, B W King, W J Zuercher
1Venable and Kenan Laboratories of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, USA. crimmins@email.unc.edu
Abstract:
A general and efficient synthesis of carbocyclic and hexenopyranosyl nucleosides has been developed. The strategy combines three key transformations: an asymmetric aldol addition to establish the relative and absolute configuration of the pseudosugar, a ring-closing metathesis to construct the pseudosugar ring, and a Trost-type palladium(0)-mediated substitution to assemble the pseudosugar and the aromatic base. Carbovir, abacavir, and their 2'-methyl derivatives as well as hexenopyranosyl nucleoside analogues have been prepared by this sequence.
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