Enantioselective total synthesis of hyperforin.

J Am Chem Soc

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.

Published: January 2013

A modular, 18-step total synthesis of hyperforin is described. The natural product was quickly accessed using latent symmetry elements, whereby a group-selective, Lewis acid-catalyzed epoxide-opening cascade cyclization was used to furnish the bicyclo[3.3.1]nonane core and set two key quaternary stereocenters.

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