文摘
2-Methoxymethylpyrrolidine best performed, among several other proline derivatives, to control the enantioselective [3+3] annulation of 尾-(hetero)aryl-伪-nitro-伪,尾-enals with commercial 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxan-5-one, a procedure that renders highly oxygenated nitrocyclohexanes endowed with five new stereocenters. Use of this reaction allowed the development of a total synthesis of the antitumoral natural product (+)-pancratistatin; it also converted our previous racemic route to tetrodotoxin into an enantioselective one.