Abstract
The cyclization of poly-β-carbonyl-substrates controlled by polyketide synthases intricately governs the biosynthesis of a wide range of aromatic polyketides. Analogous small-molecule-catalysed processes would conceivably induce selective cyclizations of non-canonical polycarbonyl substrates to provide products distinct from natural polyketides. Here, we report a secondary amine-catalysed twofold cyclization of non-canonical hexacarbonyl substrates, furnishing enantioenriched tetra-ortho-substituted binaphthalenes. The substrates were prepared by a fourfold ozonolysis of dicinnamyl biindenes and converted under catalyst control with high atroposelectivity. Privileged catalysts, helicenes and ligands are readily accessible from the binaphthalene products stemming from the non-canonical polyketide cyclizations.
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The synthetic procedures and characterization data are available in the Supplementary Information. Crystallographic data have been deposited at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) under nos. 1856452 (for (Ra)-4a prepared with (R)-6a, reflection shown in Table 2), 1856453 (for (Sa)-4c) and 1856454 (for (Sa)-4e) and can be obtained free of charge from the CCDC via www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/getstructures. All other data are available from the authors upon reasonable request.
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We acknowledge financial support from the Swiss National Science Foundation (BSSGI0-155902/1), the University of Basel and the NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering and thank F. Zellweger and F. Bianchi for skilful technical work, T. Müntener for NMR assistance and M. Neuburger for X-ray crystallography.
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R.M.W. developed the substrate synthesis and identified the aldolization modes. R.M.W. and V.C.F. optimized the described synthetic method. R.M.W. investigated the scope. R.M.W. and V.C.F. synthesized the ligand, helicene and catalyst. D.H. investigated the substrate tautomerism and mechanism by NMR. C.S. conceived and supervised the project. All authors contributed to the preparation of the manuscript.
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Witzig, R.M., Fäseke, V.C., Häussinger, D. et al. Atroposelective synthesis of tetra-ortho-substituted biaryls by catalyst-controlled non-canonical polyketide cyclizations. Nat Catal 2, 925–930 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-019-0345-0
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