N-alkenyl nitrone dipolar cycloaddition routes to piperidines and indolizidines. Part 5. Preparation of a gephyrotoxin precursor
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- No. 5,p. 633-643
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19930000633
Abstract
The synthesis of the B/C indolizidine ring skeleton of the alkaloid gephyrotoxin 3 is described. The route involved oxidative cleavage of the racemic bicyclic isoxazolidine 2 to form the nitrone 4 and its dipolar addition with methyl acrylate to give the adduct 7. Reductive cleavage of 7 and cyclisation gave the lactam 21 which was deoxygenated and converted into the toluene-p-sulfonate 37. Attempts to effect the intramolecular sulfone alkylation of 37 to form ring A of gephyrotoxin are summarised.Keywords
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