Total Synthesis of Coibacin D by Using Enantioselective Allylation and Metathesis Reactions

Abstract

AbstractThe first asymmetric total synthesis of coibacin D, a metabolite isolated from the marine cyanobacterium cf. Oscillatoria sp., was achieved in six steps starting from simple hept‐6‐en‐1‐ol. The synthetic strategy was based on a chiral Brønsted acid catalyzed enantioselective allylboration and a Ru‐carbene complex catalyzed sequential ring‐closing and cross‐metathesis strategy. The recorded spectroscopic data and the sign of the optical rotation of the synthesized coibacin D were in agreement with the published data for the isolated compound, which confirmed the proposed structure and absolute configuration.