| Abstract: | Starting from (+)- or (?)-camphor, the antipodal alcohols 14 and 18 , respectively, have been prepared; the corresponding acrylates 15 and 19 underwent TiCl2(i-PrO)2-mediated Diels-Alder additions to cyclopentadiene to give adducts 20a and 22a respectively, with 95 % endo- and 99.2% πpH-face selectivities. Adduct 22a was converted to enantiomerically pure norbornenone 26 . Addition of 1,3-butadiene to acrylate 15 in the presence of TiCl4 afforded 3-cyclohexenyl carboxylate 29 with > 95.6 % stereodifferentiation. The TiCl2(i-PrO)2-promoted 4 + 2] cycloaddition of cyclopentadiene to allenic ester 43 proceeding with 99 % face differentiation served as the key step for an efficient enantioselective synthesis of (?)-β-santalene ((?)- 41 ) with concomitant recovery of the chiral control alcohol 14 . |
