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Rapid Access to Benzofuran-Based Natural Products through a Concise Synthetic Strategy
Rao, Maddali L. N.,Murty, Venneti N.
, p. 2177 - 2186 (2016)
A concise strategy is described for the synthesis of ailanthoidol (1), egonol (2), homoegonol (3), demethoxyegonol (4), demethoxyhomoegonol (5), and stemofuran A (6). This approach involves a Pd-catalysed domino cyclization/coupling process using triarylbismuth reagents for the generation of the benzofuran core. Subsequent structural modifications then give the final targets. The high yielding synthesis of the recently isolated natural products egonol-9(Z)-12(Z)-linoleate (2a), 7-demethoxyegonol-9(Z)-12(Z)-linoleate (4a), and 7-demethoxy-egonol-9(Z)-oleate (4b) are also reported.