The most efficient synthesis reported to date of ubiquinone (CoQ10) is described. A sequence consisting of six operations is involved which leads to crystalline material in an overall yield of >64%.

The first detailed study of a room temperature asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction of N-sulfonyl-1-aza-1,3-butadienes enlisting a series of nineteen enol ethers bearing chiral auxilaries is reported with many providing highly diastereoselective (endo and facial diastereoselection) reactions largely the result of an exquisitely organized [4 + 2] cycloaddition transition state. Three new, readily accessible, and previously unexplored auxilaries (18a, 19a and 37a) rationally emerged from the studies and provide remarkable selectivities (for 19a and 37a: 49:1 endo:exo and 48:1 facial selectivity) that promise to be useful in systems beyond those detailed.

An efficient synthesis of two diastereomers of the chlorofusin cyclic peptide bearing either the l-Asn3/d-Asn-4 or d-Asn3/l-Asn4 stereochemistry is detailed. Four key subunits were prepared, sequentially coupled, and cyclized to provide the two diastereomeric macrocycles. The absolute stereochemistry at the asparagine residues 3 and 4 was assigned as l and d, respectively, by correlating the NMR data of the two diastereomers with that reported for the natural product. [structure: see text]

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