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β-Amino ester route to tussilagine, isotussilagine and (-)-petasinecine
Ma, Dawei,Zhang, Jianhua
, p. 1703 - 1707 (2007/10/03)
Condensation of enantiopure β-amino ester 2a with methyl pyruvate provides two diastereoisomers 3 and 4. Both 3 and 4 are subjected to hydrogenation followed by cyclization producing pyrrolidinones 5 and 8. From 5 and 8 isotussilagine and tussilagine are obtained respectively, by using a Mitsunobu reaction as a key step. In a similar manner, (-)-petasinecine is synthesized from the condensation product of 2b with ethyl glyoxalate.