Synthesis 2016; 48(14): 2263-2270
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1560434
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A Strategy toward the Biomimetic Synthesis of (±)-Morusalbanol A Pentamethyl Ether

Jia Ti Tee
a   Department of Chemistry, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
,
Theo Keane
b   Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S3 7HF, UK
,
Anthony J. H. M. Meijer
b   Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S3 7HF, UK
,
Hamid Khaledi
c   Center for Natural Products and Drug Research, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
,
Noorsaadah Abd Rahman
a   Department of Chemistry, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
,
Chin Fei Chee*
d   Department of Pharmacy, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia   Email: cheechinfei@um.edu.my
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Publication History

Received: 02 December 2015

Accepted after revision: 29 February 2016

Publication Date:
11 April 2016 (online)


Abstract

A strategy toward the biomimetic synthesis of morusalbanol A pentamethyl ether is described. The synthesis is based on a hydrogen-bond-assisted Diels–Alder cycloaddition between a dehydroprenyl diene and a chalcone dienophile. Selective cleavage of the ortho-methyl ether of the resulting cycloadduct allows rotation of the C3–C21 bond and subsequent intramolecular cyclization affords the pentamethyl ether of (±)-morusalbanol A. As with the natural product, morusalbanol A, a number of key proton and carbon signals are absent in the NMR spectra of the title product.

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