Over the past several decades, chemists have developed a number of synthetic methodologies for the synthesis of steroid hormones. One of these, developed by Lutz Tietze at the Institut für Organische Chemie der Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany, used a double Heck reaction to create ring B of the steroid nucleus. As shown in the following retrosynthetic analysis, a key intermediate in his synthesis is compound (1). Two Heck reaction disconnects of this intermediate give compounds (2) and (3). Compound (2) contains the
Q. In the course of the double Heck reactions, two new chiral centers are created.
Assume in compound (3), the precursor to rings C and D of estrone, that the fusion of rings C and D is trans and that the angular methyl group is above the plane of the ring. Given this stereochemistry, predict the stereochemistry of compound (1) formed by the double Heck reaction.
Step by step
Solved in 2 steps with 3 images
