A divergent approach to polyoxygenated methylcyclohexanes has been applied to synthesize several gabosines and anhydrogabosines. The starting hydroxycyclohexenone, which is readily available in any antipodal form, provides access to both enantiomers of the target compounds. The syntheses of anhydrogabosines involve three main transformations: α‐methylation, epoxidation, and sulfur removal, whereas the syntheses of gabosines require an additional epoxide hydrolysis step. The strategy has been applied to the synthesis of (+)‐epiepoformin, (+)‐epoformin, (+)‐gabosine A, and gabosines B and F, through straightforward sequences in good overall yields.
Starting from very accessible raw materials such as p-methoxyphenol, ethylene glycol, and thiophenol, a protocol has been developed to prepare multigram quantities of the polyfunctionalized cyclohexane (+/-)- 7. A highly efficient resolution of (+/-)- 7 has been achieved through enantioselective acetylation catalyzed by Candida antarctica lipase B. Straightforward and enantioselective syntheses of 4-hydroxy-2-cyclohexenone, 1, trans-cyclohex-2-ene-1,4-diol, 2, and their O-protected derivatives 18 and 19 have been readily accomplished from 7.
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