Methylmagnesium chelation controlled addition

Ketone 13 possesses the requisite structural features for an a-chelation-controlled carbonyl addition reaction.9-11 Treatment of 13 with 3-methyl-3-butenylmagnesium bromide leads, through the intermediacy of a five-membered chelate, to the formation of intermediate 12 together with a small amount of the C-12 epimer. The degree of stereoselectivity (ca. 50 1 in favor of the desired compound 12) exhibited in this substrate-stereocontrolled addition reaction is exceptional. It is instructive to note that sequential treatment of lactone 14 with 3-methyl-3-butenylmagnesium bromide and tert-butyldimethylsilyl chloride, followed by exposure of the resultant ketone to methylmagnesium bromide, produces the C-12 epimer of intermediate 12 with the same 50 1 stereoselectivity. 

Segment A2 (6) was synthesized from the glucal (12) as follows. Compound 12 was first converted to 13, which was treated with methylmagnesium bromide in tetrahydrofuran. The anti-addition controlled by a P-chelation occurred to... 

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