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Efficient synthesis of the A-ring phosphine oxide building block useful for 1α,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 and analogues
Daniewski, Andrzej R.,Garofalo, Lisa M.,Hutchings, Stanley D.,Kabat, Marek M.,Liu, Wen,Okabe, Masami,Radinov, Roumen,Yiannikouros, George P.
, p. 1580 - 1587 (2002)
The 1α-hydroxy A-ring phosphine oxide 1, a useful building block for vitamin D analogues, was synthesized from (S)-carvone in nine synthetic operations and a single chromatographic purification in 25% overall yield. The synthesis features two novel efficient synthetic transformations: the Criegee rearrangement of α-methoxy hydroperoxyacetate 10 in methanol to obtain directly the desired secondary 3β-alcohol 11 and the highly chemo- and stereoselective isomerization of dieneoxide ester (E)-7 to the 1α-allylic alcohol with an exocyclic double bond (E)-8. Further insight into the selectivity control of the latter rearrangement was obtained from the reactions of (Z)epimeric substrates. The new synthetic approach leading to the 1α-hydroxy epimers complements our previously reported synthesis of the corresponding 1β-epimers, thus producing all stereoisomers of these versatile building blocks efficiently from carvone.
