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Total Synthesis and Structure Revision of Diplobifuranylone B.

Xinpeng ChengCarlos D QuintanillaLiming Zhang
Published in: The Journal of organic chemistry (2019)
An asymmetric total synthesis of diplobifuranylone B was achieved in 10 steps for the longest linear sequence and in 15.8% overall yield from commercially available methyl (R)-(+)-lactate and l-glutamic acid. This synthesis features a stereoselective construction of the key 2,5-dihydrofuran ring in the natural product via a recently developed asymmetric gold catalysis. The stereochemical flexibility offered by the catalysis enables an expedient revision of the reported structure of diplobifuranylone B, where the relative stereochemistry of the 2,5-dihydrofuran moiety was previously misassigned as cis instead of trans.
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