Title:Enabling Access to Diverse Bioactive Molecules Through Enyne Metathesis Concepts
Volume: 17
Issue: 22
Author(s): Ileana Dragutan, Valerian Dragutan, Albert Demonceau and Lionel Delaude
Affiliation:
Keywords:
Bioactive natural compounds, Enyne metathesis, Skeletal bond reorganization, Ruthenium catalysts, Ring-closing metathesis,
Cross-metathesis, Tandem processes, Relay ring-closing, Ring-rearrangement metathesis.
Abstract: This paper surveys recent advances in valorization of transition-metal-catalyzed enyne metathesis as key events in the total
synthesis of naturally occurring compounds of biological and medicinal importance. Special attention is devoted to methodologies based
on dienyne ring-closing metathesis (RCM) applied in tandem and sequential processes, on relay ring-closing metathesis (RRCM), ringrearrangement
metathesis (RRM), enyne cross-metathesis (CM) and enyne skeletal bond reorganization, all proceeding under metalcarbenes
(Ru or Mo alkylidenes) or metal-salts (Pd or Pt) catalysis. The high potential of these procedures in constructing versatile scaffolds
as essential structural cores of a diversity of bioactive natural products is highlighted. Inventive functionalizations by nonmetathesis
transformations intervening in the total synthesis of the targeted natural compounds, prior to (Michael addition, Wittig olefination,
allylation etc.) or after (Diels-Alder cycloaddion, Heck and Suzuki-Miyaura reactions, Dess-Martin oxidation, dihydroxylation, epoxidation
etc.) the pivotal metathesis step have also been included.
