Kinamycins reaction

The matter was settled in 1994 in back-to-back communications by Gould [12] and Dmitrienko [13]. Gould showed that treatment of natural prekinamycin with dirhodium tetraacetate in methanol yielded the fluorene 16 (Scheme 3.1). The vinyl proton formed in this reaction (H-l) provided a critical spectroscopic handle and allowed unambiguous determination of the carbocyclic structure, excluding the presence of an indole heterocycle. In parallel, his research group obtained a high-quality crystal structure of a kinamycin derivative. The refined data set was shown to best accommodate a diazo rather than cyanamide (or isonitrile) function. 

Porco s pathway to complete the synthesis of (- )-kinamycin C (3) is shown in Scheme 3.8. The arylstannane 34 and the a-bromoenone 35 were efficiently coupled by a Stille reaction using tris(dibenzylideneacetone)dipalladium and triphenylarsine... 

Porco s synthesis of ( )-kinamycin C (3) constituted the first reported route to any of the diazofluorene antitumor antibiotics. This synthesis invokes several powerful transformations, including a modified Baylis-Hillman reaction, a catalyst-controlled asymmetric nucleophilic epoxidation, and a regioselective epoxide opening to establish the D-ring of the kinamycins. The tetracyclic skeleton was constructed by an... 

Ishikawa s synthesis of ( )-0-methylkinamycin C (54) represents a distinct approach to the kinamycins that hinges on a key Diels-Alder reaction to establish the tetracyclic skeleton of the natural products. Additional key steps in the sequence include a substrate-directed dihydroxylation, substrate-directed reduction, and spontaneous epimerization of an a-hydroxyketone intermediate. 

Nicolaou and coworkers reported efficient enantioselective syntheses of ( )-kinamycin C (3), ( )-kinamycin F (6), and ( )-kinamycin J (10) [39], Nicolaou s retrosyntheses of these targets are shown in Scheme 3.13. The authors envisioned that all three metabolites could be accessed from the common precursor 82. The a-hydroxyketone function of 82 was envisioned to arise from an intramolecular benzoin reaction of the ketoaldehyde 83. This key bond disconnection would serve to forge the cyclopentyl ring of the kinamycin skeleton. The ketoaldehyde 83 was deconstructed by an Ullmann coupling of the aryl bromide 84 and the a-iodoenone 85. The latter were anticipated to arise from the bromojuglone derivative 86 and the enantiomerically enriched enone 87, respectively. 

The reactions of 2-bromonaphthoquinone (221, R = H) and 3-bromo-juglone (221, R = OH) with enaminones 222 gave regioselectively benzo-[/ Jindoles or tetrahydrobenzo[/i]carbazoles 223, Scheme 59. This modification of the Nenitzescu reaction opened up new entries to the Kinamycin alkaloid framework (92TL535). 

Intramolecular or partially intramolecular cycloaddition reactions are extremely useful tools in the synthesis of polycyclic molecules, since they can allow the construction of several rings in a single step. Preliminary studies indicate that this general principle also holds for partially intramolecular versions of the palladium-catalyzed cocycloaddition of arynes and alkynes. For example, benzo[fc]fluorenones 144a-d, which constitute the polycyclic skeleton of the kinamycin family of antitumour antibiotics, can be obtained by [2+2+2] cy-... 

Weeratunga G, Prasad GKB et al (1990) Regioselective Diels-Alder reactions of N-cyanoindoIe-4, 7-diones elaboration of the A-ring of the kinamycins on a BC ring template. Tetrahedron Lett 31 5713-5716... 

The replacement of copper by other metals in the Ullmann reaction usually results in milder and more efficient pathways. The common use of Pd in conjunction with copper in the Ullmann coupling can be seen in many examples. Nicolaou et al. utilized such modifications in their total synthesis of kinamycins C, F, and J. Bromide 9 underwent coupling with iodide 10 to give aldehyde 11 in a satisfactory 83% yield. 

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