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Total synthesis of the antitumor antibiotic (+/-)-fredericamycin A by a linear approach
1Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Japan. kita@phs.osaka-u.ac.jp
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|December 29, 2000
Abstract:
A linear approach to the total synthesis of racemic fredericamycin A (1) through the oxidative intramolecular [4 + 2] cycloaddition of a (phenylthio)acetylene-cobalt complex is described, which is applicable for the asymmetric total synthesis of naturally occuring 1. The highlight of this work is the aromatic Pummerer-type reaction with 1-ethoxyvinyl chloroacetate, which effects the introduction of the oxygen functional group to the internal B-ring of the highly functionalized, congested polyaromatic ABC-ring moiety.