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A five-step synthesis of ethyl ester of eyelie hydrazonie aeid 314 used in the synthesis of natural produets has been deseribed [94JCA(CC)1867]. The eonden-sation of methoxybutenone with EtCOaCN (t-BuOK, THF, —78°C) is eompleted with the formation of ketoester 310 in 72% yield. The addition of methanol to the latter (Triton B, MeOH, room temperature, 88%) and the reduetion with NaBH4 (EtOH, —78°C) leads to the aleohol 312, yield 90%. The dianion of 312 (EDA, THE, -78°C) reaets with t-butylazodiearboxylate (t-BuOaC—N=N—COaBu-t) to form adduet 313, the treatment of whieh with trifluoroaeetie aeid affords the ester 314 in 55% yield [94JCA(CC)1867]. 

The total synthesis of ( )-estrone [( )-1 ] by Vollhardt et al. is a novel extension of transition metal mediated alkyne cyclotrimeriza-tion technology. This remarkable total synthesis is achieved in only five steps from 2-methylcyclopentenone (19) in an overall yield of 22%. The most striking maneuver in this synthesis is, of course, the construction of tetracycle 13 from the comparatively simple diyne 16 by combining cobalt-mediated and ort/io-quinodimethane cycloaddition reactions. This achievement bodes well for future applications of this chemistry to the total synthesis of other natural products. 

Stockman and coworkers [329] developed a straightforward synthesis of a tricyclic compound 2-636 which has some resemblance to the spirocyclic portion of the natural product halichlorine (2-637) [330]. On treatment of the symmetrical ketone 2-633, accessible in five steps from alcohol 2-632, with hydroxylamine hydrochloride the spiro piperidine 2-636 could be obtained in 62% yield (Scheme... 

Zhang68 has applied the cyclization of esters to the formation of a-methylene-y-butyrolactones, thus offering a novel and enantioselective entry to these substructures. The importance of this unsaturated lactone is evidenced by its ubiquitous presence in nearly a third of all naturally occurring secondary metabolites. The Alder-ene reaction has been applied to a formal total synthesis of (+)-pilocarpine, a leading therapeutic reagent for the treatment of narrow and wide glaucoma. Zhang intersected Btichi s synthetic intermediate (i )-181 (Scheme 47) in only two steps with a 99% ee and a 91% overall yield. In comparison, Biichi synthesized (i )-181 in five steps with a 92% ee and a 20% overall yield. 

Einsteinium does not exist in nature and is not found in the Earth s crust. It is produced in small amounts by artificial nuclear transmutations of other radioactive elements rather than by additional explosions of thermonuclear weapons. The formation of einsteinium from decay processes of other radioactive elements starts with plutonium and proceeds in five steps as follows ... 

Among them are found the naturally occurring 1-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ) and 1-deoxymannojirimycin (DMJ) [96]. Practical syntheses of DNJ and DMJ start from L-gulono-1,4-lactone (20b) and o-mannono-1,4-lactone (74), respectively [97]. Key intermediates are 2,6-dibromo-2,6-dideoxy-D-alditol derivatives 75a and 75b obtained by 2,6-dibromination of the starting lactones, followed by reduction with NaBH4 [98, 99]. Then a five-step sequence involving selective partial protection, introduction of an amine functionality, and intramolecular N-alkylation, lead to DNJ and DMJ, respectively (Scheme 22). 

Within the context of total synthesis, the application of CM to a one-pot sequential protocol has the potential to dramatically simplify the preparation of complex natural products. Trost and co-workers recently demonstrated an elegant example of this, wherein a one-pot CM-Takai olefination reaction was used for the preparation of the antitumor agent callipeltoside A and various analogs (Scheme 21). By using a three-step, two-pot sequence employing this protocol, the synthetic route toward these compounds was shortened by five steps and olefin stereoselectivity was increased (4 1 to >8 1 E/Z) relative to previous syntheses employing a classical Emmons-Wadsworth-Horner approach. 

M 58] [P 53] Oil and water were contacted in a five-step fork-like micro mixer [43], Small water droplets were achieved in this way, which soon gave a segmented oil and water flow. When using a 15-step fork-like micro mixer, smaller droplets resulted giving an opaque system of emulsion nature. The separation into two separate phases took 3-4 days. 

A plausible reaction mechanism for such couplings is presented in Figure 13.7 for the specific example of the transformation of Figure 13.6. We do not specify the number n and the nature of the ligands L of the intermediate Ni complexes in Figure 13.7. Little is known about either one. Also, it is quite possible that more than one elementary reaction is involved in some of the steps 1-5. In any case, these five steps are certainly involved in the overall reaction. In step 1, the aryl bromide enters the coordination sphere of the Ni(0) compound as a 7r ligand. At least one metal coordination site must be vacated before an oxidative addition of the aryl bromide to the Ni atom may occur in step 2. The nickel inserts into the Csp2—Br bond, and its oxidation... 

The first, reported in 1986 (46) utilizes Sharpless oxyamination of the C-13 cinnamate derivative (25), leading in one step to both the correct substitutions at C-2 and C-3 and to the threo configuration present in taxol. This reaction yields 10-deacetyl taxol (23f), after deprotection and benzoylation of the oxyamination product, in five steps starting from 13a with an overall yield of about 10% and to taxol (1) itself starting from 13b. When the standard conditions described for oxyamination are used, the reaction is nonspecific and leads to two regioisomers and their associated diastereoisomers (27a-d). Use of asymmetric catalysts (50) in the reaction leads to an improvement in the yield of the desired isomer 27a, the precursor of natural deacetyltaxol. 

Hydrogen is used in many industrial processes, such as the production of ammonia for fertilizer. Hydrogen also has been considered to have a potential as an energy source because its combustion yields a clean product and it is easily stored as metal hydrides. Thermochemical cycles (a series of reactions resulting in a recycle of some of the reactants) can be used in the production of hydrogen from an abundant natural compound— water. One process involving a series of five steps is outlined below. State assumptions about the states of the compounds. 

Sarcophytol B. McMurry has utilized a diastereoselective pinacol cyclization of a 1,14-dialdehyde in the final step of a five-step synthesis of sarcophytol B, a cem-brane sesquiterpene (Eq. 3.8) [25]. This work established the relative stereochemistry of the natural product [26]. 

Copper complexes of chiral Pybox (pyridine-2,6-bis(oxazoline))-type ligands have been found to catalyze the enantioselective alkynylation of imines [26]. Moreover, the resultant optically active propargylamines are important intermediates for the synthesis of a variety of nitrogen compounds [27], as well as being a common structural feature of many biologically active compounds and natural products. Portnoy prepared PS-supported chiral Pybox-copper complex 35 via a five-step solid-phase synthetic sequence [28]. Cu(l) complexes of the polymeric Pybox ligands were then used as catalysts for the asymmetric addition of phenylacetylene to imine 36, as shown in Scheme 3.11. tBu-Pybox gave the best enantioselectivity of 83% ee in the synthesis of 37. 

Irrespective of the SPE format, the method of operation is the same and can be divided into five steps (Figure 8.8). Each step is characterized by the nature and type of solvent used, which in turn is dependent upon the characteristics of the sorbent and the sample. 

The structure of the acetylenic norsesquiterpene chamaecynenol (274) has been derived by X-ray analysis. The stereochemistry of the C-4 hydroxy-group in the naturally-occurring hydroxyisochamaecynone (275) has been established as a by total synthesis. Both epimers were synthesised from the known acetylenic ketone (276) (obtained from a-santonin) in a five-step process. From a study... 

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