Asymmetric syntheses of ent-pimarane diterpenoids

Org Biomol Chem. 2023 May 31;21(21):4409-4413. doi: 10.1039/d3ob00575e.

Abstract

Aromatic ent-pimaranes are a group of aromatized tricyclic diterpenoids that exhibit diverse bioactivities. In this work, the first total syntheses of two aromatic ent-pimaranes were achieved via a C-ABC construction sequence enabled by chiral auxiliary controlled asymmetric radical polyene cyclization, and the subsequent substrate-controlled stereo-/regio-specific hydroboration of alkene allowed for access to both natural products with C19 oxidation modifications.