The pool of chiral, non-racemic electrophilic building blocks, which are available from simple natural products in both enantiomeric forms is enlarged by the epoxides 3,5, and 10, by the tosylate 12a, and by the aldehydes 18 (cJ. symbols A-D, 14, and Scheme I). Key steps of the conversions leading from hydroxyacids to the building blocks are: epoxide-opening by triethylborohydride (1 + 2a) and tosylate reduction (12a-+ 12b); the Mifsunohu inversion (2a-4a); the reduction of (R,R)tartaric ester to (R)-malic ester by NBS (N-bromosuccinimide) opening of the benzaldehyde acetal 8 and tin hydride reduction (6c-7c); the enantiomer enrichment of optically active ethyl [j-hydroxy-butanoate through the crystalline dinitrobenzoate 21b. Detailed procedures are given for large scale preparations of the key intermediates. The enantiomeric purities of the building blocks are secured by correlations.Nachdem wir in einer fruheren Mitteilung [ I ] uber die Herstellung chiraler elektrophiler Synthesebausteine mit vier verschiedenen funktionellen Gruppe; aus Weinsaure4) berichtet haben, werden hier 5 ) ein einfaches Verfahren zur Uberfuhrung von sogenanntem naturlichem6)(R,R)-Weinsaureester in den nicht naturlich 1 ) 2 ) Korrespondenrautor.
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The ioacrodiotide antibiotic (+)-colletodiol (7, &home 1) was synthesiscd. The configurntion was thus proven 10 bc (6R.1 t R,12R.t4R), -Kcy intermediates (Schemes 9 and 10) are the two hydoxy acids 43 and 64, which were preparcd from dimethyl (S.S)-tartrate in 20% overall yield (12 s!eps) and horn IR)-3-hydroxybutanoate in 57% overall yield (6 steps), respectively. The two hydroxy acids were cyclised to give, aker deproicction. rhc title compound. -Our investigations led to the production of a largc number of chiral building blocks, many ofthcm in differcnt stercoisomcric forms.
A) IntroductionTwo groups of medium-ring diolides (macrodiolides) have been isolated from different fungi. The unsymmetrical ones are shown in Scheme 1. A discussion of these diolides along with those of C2-symmetry (references to isolation, structure elucidation, and synthesis) was provided in a recent paper 'I. For the total synthesis of (+)-conglobatin see ref.6).We initiated a project directed toward the total synthesis of (+)-colletodiol(7) in order to demonstrate the utility of chiral building blocks derived from tartaric acid. A list of references to such building blocks is given in a review article') (see also ref. ' 1) .In the initial publication on the structure of (+)-colletodio19) misinterpretation of the available data led to the assignment of configuration at C-11 as S. Therefore we first attempted to synthesise what is now known as 5-epicolletodio13). This led to a number of 1,2-diols of u configuration") (see -13) ). When we compared an advanced intermediate of the synthesis with the corresponding compound derived from degradation of colletodiol, it was evident, that the published structure was wrong. An X-ray analysis showed that the 1,2-diol unit has 1 c~nfiguration'~). Thus the corresponding building blocks with 1 configuration were prepared.A description of the preparation and the full characterisation of all chiral building blocks derived from tartaric acid during this work is given in and in several publications (see ref. 7J-13)).Many of these epoxides and 1,2-diols are also available through Sharpless epoxidation ''I. For convenient laboratory-scale preparations of enantiomerically pure samples, the present "chiral pool" approach can compete very well with the enantioselective epoxidation. In the following sections, our total synthesis of (+)-colletodiol is described in detail. A short communication was published in ref.
B) Synthesis of (+)-ColletodiolSeveral synthetic strategies were followed to synthesise colletodiol (7). The following connections were made to build up the target (Scheme 2): The C(lO)-C (13)
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