Vinyl iodide, Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi

Coupling of vinyl iodide 82 (a substrate derived from geraniol) with aldehyde 84 was accomplished via a Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi [56] coupling reaction to give 107 after oxidation (Scheme 24). Three straightforward transformations allowed the authors to isolate thyrsiferol (1) and thyrsiferol 23-acetate (4) in a total of 36 steps and 24 steps for the longest linear sequence. 

We selected the natural product thyrsiferol as an ideal target to test our ideas. Its total synthesis was envisioned to proceed as illustrated in the Scheme 28. The successful coupling between aldehyde 84 and vinyl iodide 82 via a Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi (NHK) reaction [66] had been demonstrated previously [29]. We therefore sought to model our final steps after precedence presented by Forsyth for the union of these two fragments. The focus of our synthetic strategy centered around the stereoselective synthesis of the ABC framework (84) of thyrsiferol (1) as a scaffold to validate the scope of the Cp2TiCl reaction with epoxides toward the assembly of Q-C-glycosides and cyclic ethers. 

A catalytic variant of the Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi reaction was recently introduced by Fiirstner [140]. The stoichiometric reaction generally requires at least three equivalents of chromium for the transformation to be complete. The large excess of CrCl2 and the toxicity of the chromium salts precludes the application of this reaction in industrial processes. The reaction developed by Fiirstner employs manganese powder and chlorotrimethylsilane to produce a catalytic cycle illustrated in Fig. 10-8 for the addition of vinyl iodides to aldehydes. The stereo-... 

A valuable feature of the Nin/Crn-mediated Nozaki-Takai-Hiyama-Kishi coupling of vinyl iodides and aldehydes is that the stereochemistry of the vinyl iodide partner is reflected in the allylic alcohol coupling product, at least when disubstituted or trans tri-substituted vinyl iodides are employed.68 It is, therefore, imperative that the trans vinyl iodide stereochemistry in 159 be rigorously defined. Of the various ways in which this objective could be achieved, a regioselective syn addition of the Zr-H bond of Schwartz s reagent (Cp2ZrHCl) to the alkyne function in 165, followed by exposure of the resulting vinylzirconium species to iodine, seemed to constitute a distinctly direct solution to this important problem. Alkyne 165 could conceivably be derived in short order from compound 166, the projected product of an asymmetric crotylboration of achiral aldehyde 168. 

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