• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.1021-1022
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• 2002

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.27 no.12
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• pp.2091-2092
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• 2006

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.31 no.11
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• pp.3382-3384
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• 2010

A new synthetic route to ($\pm$)-aspidospermidine was devised, starting from the cycloadduct of 3-ethyl-5-bromo-2-pyrone with vinyl sulfide through a tandem conjugate addition-alkylation sequence. The requisite 3-ethyl-5-bromo-2-pyrone was prepared via the C3-selective Pd-catalyzed coupling reaction with $Et_3Al$-dimethylaminoethanol complex.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.27 no.12
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• pp.2084-2086
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• 2006

• Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.62-69
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• 2004

Bicyclolactones obtained from the Diels-Alder cycloaddition of 3,5-dibromo-2-pyrone can undergo various palladium catalyzed cross coupling reactions to afford aryl bicyclolactones. The resulting coupled products can be readily converted into various 3-OH cyclohexenes via lactone ring openings, while those bearing dienyl units underwent highly diastereoselective Diels-Alder cycloadditions with selected dienophiles to funish multiply functionalized polycarbocycles. Bromo-bicyclic diene furnished two different diastereomers endo-form (62%) and exo-form (38%) upon cycloadditions with N-Et maleimide (NEM), and their stereochemistries were identified with NMR.