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Efficient and versatile synthesis of (2S,3R)-sphingosine and its 2-azido-3-O-benzylsphingosine analogue
Lu, Xuequan,Bittman, Robert
, p. 1873 - 1875 (2007/10/03)
The title compounds (1, 2) were synthesized from (2R,3S)-2-O-benzyl-3,4-O- (3′-pentylidene)-2,3,4-trihydroxybutanal (5). Installation of the E-double bond and aliphatic chain into the sphingosine base was effected by a sequence of Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons olefination of 5, conversion to allylic acetate 8, and copper-mediated Grignard coupling. The method is versatile, allowing a broad variety of aliphatic chains to be introduced in the organocuprate coupling step.