Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 354 Fenglin Lu, Shanghai 200032, People's Republic of China
Abstract:
Squalamine (1) was synthesized stereoselectively in 14 steps and 19% overall yield from 3-keto-5-chenodeoxycholanate (2) by using a modified Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation as the key step.