
%0 Journal Article
%A Pausler, MG 
%A Rutledge, PS 
%T Experiments Directed Towards the Synthesis of Anthracyclinones. XXIV. Homochiral Intermediates for Vineomycin Syntheses
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1994/12/01
%V 47
%N 12
%P 2149-2160
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9942149
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9942149 
%X Homochiral  intermediates suitable for the synthesis of vineomycins have been prepared by a titanium-mediated addition of an enolate of (-)-menthyl acetate to the furano  ketones (12) and (13). The absolute configurations of the menthyl butanoates (14) and (15) have been established by comparison of their 1H n.m.r. spectra in the presence of Eu ( hfc )3 with those of the corresponding fridamycin derivatives (20) and (21). 1H n.m.r. comparisons of the methyl esters (16), (17), (22) and (23) in the presence of (R)-2,2,2-trifluoro-1-(9-anthryl)ethanol confirmed the configurations. The use of chiral  sulfoxides for the construction of the butanoate side chain was thwarted when (28) could not be desulfurized, and when attempts to add (27) to the trimethoxyanthracene (29) were unsuccessful. 
