posted on 2014-04-04, 00:00authored byFerdi van der Pijl, Robert
K. Harmel, Gaston J. J. Richelle, Peter Janssen, Floris L. van Delft, Floris P. J. T. Rutjes
Enantiomerically pure 2,6-disubstituted
piperidinones were synthesized
from furfural involving an organocatalyzed Mannich reaction, aza-Achmatowicz
reaction, and an N-acyliminium ion-mediated coupling
step. This approach was also successfully applied to a total synthesis
of (−)-sedacryptine and one of its epimers.