Catalytic Asymmetric Total Syntheses of (-)-Galanthamine and (-)-Lycoramine

J Org Chem. 2019 Oct 4;84(19):12664-12671. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b01971. Epub 2019 Sep 18.

Abstract

The catalytic asymmetric total syntheses of the biologically important and therapeutically valuable Amaryllidaceae alkaloids (-)-galanthamine and (-)-lycoramine have been divergently achieved from commercially available 3-butyn-1-ol. A newly developed spirocyclic pyrrolidine (SPD)-catalyzed enantioselective Robinson annulation rapidly constructs the key cis-hydrodibenzofuran core, which bears an all-carbon quaternary stereocenter of the target molecules with an excellent stereoselective control. Additionally, the current asymmetric synthetic strategy provides an alternative approach toward the syntheses of (-)-galanthamine and its analogues.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids / chemical synthesis*
  • Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids / chemistry
  • Catalysis
  • Galantamine / chemical synthesis*
  • Galantamine / chemistry
  • Molecular Structure
  • Pyrrolidines / chemistry*
  • Spiro Compounds / chemistry*
  • Stereoisomerism

Substances

  • Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids
  • Pyrrolidines
  • Spiro Compounds
  • Galantamine
  • pyrrolidine
  • lycoramine