Abstract
We report an improved synthetic protocol for hydroxy methyl-derived polysubstituted furans employing Bi(III)-catalyzed dehydrative cycloisomerization of α-hydroxy oxetanyl ketones. This procedure provides rapid access (within 5 min) to highly substituted furans with exceptional functional group diversity, excellent yields, generality, scalability, and operationally simple reaction conditions. Further, it demonstrated the utility of this method in the first enantioselective total synthesis of furyl-hydroquinone-derived biologically potent natural products shikonofurans J, D, E, and C in seven linear steps, starting from readily available building blocks of 2,5-dihydroxy acetophenone and 3-oxetanone employing chiral-phosphoric acid (TRIP)-catalyzed asymmetric prenylation as a key step to induce the chirality.
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