One-Pot Preparation of Bridged Tricyclic and Fused Tetracyclic Scaffolds via Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Borylative Cyclization

Summary: Bridged and fused polycyclic structures are found in a huge number of natural products. Significant progress has been made on their syntheses; however, facile and practical strategies to afford polycycles with tunable substituents and functional groups remain rare. Here, we report a practic...

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Main Authors: Qing-Hua Li, Dingding Gao, Cheng-Yu He, Qi Liao, Yun-Xuan Tan, Yu-Hui Wang, Rui Ding, Guo-Qiang Lin, Ping Tian
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Published: Elsevier 2020-10-01
Series:Cell Reports Physical Science
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266638642030237X
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author Qing-Hua Li
Dingding Gao
Cheng-Yu He
Qi Liao
Yun-Xuan Tan
Yu-Hui Wang
Rui Ding
Guo-Qiang Lin
Ping Tian
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Cheng-Yu He
Qi Liao
Yun-Xuan Tan
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Ping Tian
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description Summary: Bridged and fused polycyclic structures are found in a huge number of natural products. Significant progress has been made on their syntheses; however, facile and practical strategies to afford polycycles with tunable substituents and functional groups remain rare. Here, we report a practical rhodium(III)-catalyzed asymmetric borylative cyclization of cyclohexadienone-containing 1,6-enynes, affording highly enantioenriched cis-bicyclic frameworks with great functional group compatibility, and further extend it to construct bridged tricyclic and fused tetracyclic skeletons in one-pot protocols. The combination of borylative cyclization with a subsequent oxidation/aldol reaction sequence goes through an epimerization of the stereocenter adjacent to the acetyl group, yielding various tricyclic compounds. In addition, borylative cyclization is combined with a Suzuki-Miyaura coupling/Michael addition sequence, leading to diverse tetracyclic compounds. Starting from simple starting materials, both one-pot transformations yield complex products bearing several consecutive stereocenters with excellent enantioselectivities. Furthermore, an unnatural steroid-like compound is also readily prepared, demonstrating the potential of this methodology.
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spelling doaj.art-8968a8f4a05b4d878bc7f978718e5cc62022-12-21T22:57:36ZengElsevierCell Reports Physical Science2666-38642020-10-01110100222One-Pot Preparation of Bridged Tricyclic and Fused Tetracyclic Scaffolds via Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Borylative CyclizationQing-Hua Li0Dingding Gao1Cheng-Yu He2Qi Liao3Yun-Xuan Tan4Yu-Hui Wang5Rui Ding6Guo-Qiang Lin7Ping Tian8The Research Center of Chiral Drugs, Innovation Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, ChinaThe Research Center of Chiral Drugs, Innovation Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, ChinaCAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, ChinaThe Research Center of Chiral Drugs, Innovation Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, ChinaCAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, ChinaThe Research Center of Chiral Drugs, Innovation Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China; Corresponding authorThe Research Center of Chiral Drugs, Innovation Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China; Corresponding authorThe Research Center of Chiral Drugs, Innovation Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, ChinaThe Research Center of Chiral Drugs, Innovation Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Chiral Drugs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China; Corresponding authorSummary: Bridged and fused polycyclic structures are found in a huge number of natural products. Significant progress has been made on their syntheses; however, facile and practical strategies to afford polycycles with tunable substituents and functional groups remain rare. Here, we report a practical rhodium(III)-catalyzed asymmetric borylative cyclization of cyclohexadienone-containing 1,6-enynes, affording highly enantioenriched cis-bicyclic frameworks with great functional group compatibility, and further extend it to construct bridged tricyclic and fused tetracyclic skeletons in one-pot protocols. The combination of borylative cyclization with a subsequent oxidation/aldol reaction sequence goes through an epimerization of the stereocenter adjacent to the acetyl group, yielding various tricyclic compounds. In addition, borylative cyclization is combined with a Suzuki-Miyaura coupling/Michael addition sequence, leading to diverse tetracyclic compounds. Starting from simple starting materials, both one-pot transformations yield complex products bearing several consecutive stereocenters with excellent enantioselectivities. Furthermore, an unnatural steroid-like compound is also readily prepared, demonstrating the potential of this methodology.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266638642030237X
spellingShingle Qing-Hua Li
Dingding Gao
Cheng-Yu He
Qi Liao
Yun-Xuan Tan
Yu-Hui Wang
Rui Ding
Guo-Qiang Lin
Ping Tian
One-Pot Preparation of Bridged Tricyclic and Fused Tetracyclic Scaffolds via Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Borylative Cyclization
Cell Reports Physical Science
title One-Pot Preparation of Bridged Tricyclic and Fused Tetracyclic Scaffolds via Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Borylative Cyclization
title_full One-Pot Preparation of Bridged Tricyclic and Fused Tetracyclic Scaffolds via Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Borylative Cyclization
title_fullStr One-Pot Preparation of Bridged Tricyclic and Fused Tetracyclic Scaffolds via Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Borylative Cyclization
title_full_unstemmed One-Pot Preparation of Bridged Tricyclic and Fused Tetracyclic Scaffolds via Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Borylative Cyclization
title_short One-Pot Preparation of Bridged Tricyclic and Fused Tetracyclic Scaffolds via Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Borylative Cyclization
title_sort one pot preparation of bridged tricyclic and fused tetracyclic scaffolds via rhodium iii catalyzed asymmetric borylative cyclization
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266638642030237X
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