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  2. Synthesis of Demissidine and Solanidine

Synthesis of Demissidine and Solanidine

  • Org Lett. 2016 Jun 17;18(12):3038-40. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.6b01320.
Zhi-Dan Zhang 1 Yong Shi 2 Jing-Jing Wu 2 Jing-Rong Lin 1 Wei-Sheng Tian 2
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Chemistry, College of Life Sciences and Environment, Shanghai Normal University , 100 Guilin Road, Shanghai 200234, China.
  • 2 Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China.
Abstract

Demissidine and solanidine, two steroidal Alkaloids, are synthesized in eight steps from tigogenin acetate and diosgenin acetate, respectively, which involve the replacement of three C-O bonds with C-N bonds. Key transformations include a cascade ring-switching process of furostan-26-acid, an epimerization of C25, an intramolecular Schmidt reaction, and an imine reduction/intramolecular aminolysis process.

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