四川大学秦勇课题组博士生周旋、日本东北大学药学研究生院岩间佑介等在《德国应用化学》2012年4月发表的题目为“(+)-钩吻碱的仿生全合成(Biomimetic Total Synthesis of (+)-Gelsemine)”的研究成果被选为当期hot paper。作者采用以由D构型的酒石酸二乙酯制备的化合物(R,R)-氮杂环丙烷为原料,经过分子内Michael 加成反应,酸催化烯醇-氧鎓离子关环反应(2到3)等关键步骤,经过25步反应,顺利制得(+)-钩吻碱,总收率约1%。其中采用烯醇-氧鎓环合反应作为制备笼状结构关键步骤的合成已证实与钩吻碱家族生物合成途径有关。
作者:Xuan Zhou, Tao Xiao, Yusuke Iwama, Prof. Dr. Yong Qin
Challenging: (+)-gelsemine was synthesized from (R,R)-aziridine 1 in 25 steps with approximately 1 % overall yield. A multi-step, one-pot enol–oxonium cyclization cascade was used to construct, simultaneously, the E ring, F ring, C3-stereocenter, and C7 quaternary stereocenter. This synthesis using the enol–oxonium cyclization reaction as a key step to make the cage structure has demonstrated the proposed biosynthetic pathway of the gelsemine family.