Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.136, No.8, 3036-3039, 2014
Concise Enantiospecific Total Synthesis of Tubingensin A
We report the enantiospecific total synthesis of (+)-tubingensin A. Our synthesis features an aryne cyclization to efficiently introduce the vicinal quaternary stereocenters of the natural product and proceeds in only nine steps (longest linear sequence) from known compounds.