Indolizidine alkaloids synthesis

The reduction of heterocyclic compounds is a versatile process of great use in the synthesis of alkaloids185. The choice of catalyst is crucial however, as illustrated by the indolizidine alkaloid synthesis shown in Scheme 34185a. The reduction of 37 to 38 proceeds with a very high degree of stereocontrol which sets up the correct framework for intramolecular cyclization to complete a short synthesis of y-lycorane 39186. 

MacDonald, T. L. Indolizidine alkaloid synthesis. Preparation of the pharaoh ant trail pheronlone and gephyrotoxin 223 stereoisomers. J. Organ. Chem. (USA) 45,193—195 (1980). 

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The intramolecular cycloaddition reaction of enamides has been exploited in alkaloid synthesis (81JOC3763). One successful application is provided by the total synthesis of the fused indolizidine 5 from 4 as a 1 1 mixture of epimers in 43% total yield 5 is a key intermediate in aspidosperma alkaloid synthesis (79JA3294). 

The product of the reaction in Entry 8 was used in the synthesis of the alkaloid pseudotropine. The proper stereochemical orientation of the hydroxy group is determined by the structure of the oxazoline ring formed in the cycloaddition. Entry 9 portrays the early stages of synthesis of the biologically important molecule biotin. The reaction in Entry 10 was used to establish the carbocyclic skeleton and stereochemistry of a group of toxic indolizidine alkaloids found in dart poisons from frogs. Entry 11 involves generation of a nitrile oxide. Three other stereoisomers are possible. The observed isomer corresponds to approach from the less hindered convex face of the molecule. 

Another Rhn-catalyzed decomposition of a a-diazoester as described by Sabe and coworkers [198] was used for the synthesis of indolizidine alkaloids (Scheme 6/2.8). It can be assumed that, first, an ammonium ylide is formed which then undergoes a 1,2-shift with ring-expansion. Thus, reaction of 6/2-40 with Rh2(OAc)4 led to a 72 28 mixture of 6/2-41 and 6/2-42 in 85 % yield. Cu(acac)2 can also be used with even better yields, but lower selectivity (65 35). 

Novel synthetic procedures for indolizidine alkaloids were developed via a samarium diiodide-promoted carbon-nitrogen bond cleavage as a key step. Application of the procedure led to the total synthesis of (+)-(8R, 8aR)-perhydro-8-indolizidinol <2006H193>. 

Indolizidine alkaloids. The key step in a new stereocontrolled synthesis of these alkaloids, such as castanospermine (5), depends upon the diastereoselective reaction of an azagluco aldehyde with allylmetal reagents catalyzed by Lewis acids (12, 21-22). Thus reaction of allyltrimethylsilane with the aldehyde 1 and TiCL, (excess) in CH2C12 at - 85° results in the product 2, formed by selective chelation of the ot-amino aldehydo group with TiCl4. The product can be converted into 5... 

The venom of ants of the genus Myrmicaria is made up of indolizidine or pyrrole-indolizidine alkaloids [188,189]. The synthesis of some of these alkaloids has already been reported in the review of Leclercq et al. [114]. Thus, we will report here only on the syntheses published since 1999. 

Swainsonine is a trihydroxylated bicyclic indolizidine alkaloid with four chiral centres, whose relative stereochemistry was determined by X-ray crystallographic analysis and the absolute configuration was deduced on the basis of biosynthetic and asymmetric induction studies, and then confirmed by an enantiospecific synthesis from D-mannose [2a]. 

The dipolar cycloaddition of nitronates has been applied to the synthesis of several natural products in the context of the tandem [4+2] / [3 + 2] nitroalkene cycloaddition process. All of these syntheses have focused on the construction of pyrrolidine, pyrrolizidine, and indolizidine alkaloids. For example, the synthesis of ( )-hastanecine (316), a necine alkaloid, involves the elaboration of a p-benzoy-loxynitroalkene 311 via [4 + 2] cycloaddition with a chiral vinyl ether (312) in the presence of a titanium based Lewis acid, to provide the nitronate 313 with high diastereo- and facial selectivity (Scheme 2.30) (69). The dipolar cycloaddition of... 

Radical cyclizations are often used in ring formations and are an effective methodology in the synthesis of piperidines. The intramolecular cyclization of an oxime ether, such as 63 onto an aldehyde or ketone gives a new entry into cyclic amino alcohols <99JOC2003, 99H(51)2711>. Similarly, reaction of a terminal acetylene with BujSnH generates a vinyl radical, which will cyclize with an imine moiety to give 3-methylenepiperidine <99TL1515>. The indolizidine alkaloid ipalbidine was prepared by a sulfur-controlled 6-exo-selective radical cyclization of an a/p/ia-phenylthio amide <99H(50)31>. 

Yttrium-catalyzed diene cyclization/hydrosilylation was applied to the synthesis of aliphatic nitrogen heterocycles such as the indolizidine alkaloid ( )-epilupinine. l-Allyl-2-vinylpiperidine 30 was synthesized in four steps in 59% overall yield from commercially available ( )-2-piperidinemethanol (Scheme 10). Treatment of 30 with phenylsilane and a catalytic amount of Gp 2YGH3(THF) gave silylated quinolizidine derivative 31 in 84% yield, resulting from selective hydrometallation of the A-allyl G=G bond in preference to the exocyclic vinylic G=G bond. Oxidation of the crude reaction mixture with tert-huVf hydrogen peroxide and potassium hydride gave (i)-epilupinine in 51-62% yield from 30 (Scheme 10). 

In our group the diastereoselective 1,2-addition of organometallic reagents to aldehyde SAMP hydrazones was employed in the synthesis of several alkaloids and we have now extended our method to the efficient asymmetric synthesis of the poison-dart-frog indolizidine alkaloids 2091 and 223J and their enantiomers via a common late-stage intermediate amino nitrile (5R,8R,8aS)-63 [45]. This amino nitrile chemistry had previously been used by Polniaszek and Belmont in the first enantioselective total syntheses of 5,8-disubstituted indolizidine alkaloids [46]. They were able to prepare the indolizidines 205A (65) from 64 in one or two steps (Scheme 1.2.15). 

Although more rare, the ring opening of A-acyl (3-lactams has also been realized by using hydrides, giving rise to the corresponding reduction products. In this context, Scheme 40, Lee and Pak [107] have described the treatment of A-Boc (3-lactam 119 with lithium aluminium hydride to give A-protected amino alcohol 120. Compound 120 could serve as potential intermediate for the synthesis of various hydroxylated indolizidine alkaloids. 

Perhydropyrido[l,2-fr][l,2]oxazine 10 was applied in the total synthesis of (-)-monomorine I, an indolizidine alkaloid, to control the stereoselectivity (09S655). 

Further acid-catalyzed reactions include the use of />-toluene sulfonic acid-DMF in a cyclization of the protected amino acid 17 (DMF = dimethylformamide Scheme 15) <20040L4941>. This was the key step in the stereoselective synthesis of 5-hydroxypipecolic acid. A similar acid-catalyzed ring closure of a hemiacetal yielded the fused piperidine 18 <2004JOC1872> (Equation 32). The indolizidine alkaloid can be accessed by a Barton-Ester method utilizing a polyphosphoric acid (PPA) cyclization (Scheme 16) <1994T19157>. 

The synthesis of 2,4,6-trisubstituted piperidines has been reported via the generation of a fused cyclic intermediate in a three-component reaction using typical palladium-based chemistry (Scheme 112) <20060L3813, 20060L3809>. Stereocontrol was observed and the same intermediate was used in the stereoselective synthesis of the indolizidine alkaloid (—)-dendroprimine. 

The formation of thiocarbonyl ylids by the reaction of metallocarbenoids with thiocarbonyl compounds has not been extensively studied, as noted by Padwa and Weingarten in a review [167]. However, formation of rings by interaction of these compounds has recently received some attention. A key step in the synthesis of a polyhydroxylated indolizidine alkaloid related to castanospermine is the reaction of diazoketone with a thioamide, in the presence of rhodium acetate [135]. After desulfurisation an enaminone was obtained. 

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