Four-step one-pot catalytic asymmetric synthesis of multisubstituted tricyclic compounds: Lipase-catalyzed dynamic kinetic resolution followed by an intramolecular Diels–Alder reaction
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One Pot
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Starting from readily available tertiary alcohols, four different reactions (i.e., a 1,3-migration of a hydroxy group, kinetic resolution, racemization, and an intramolecular Diels–Alder reaction) took place under the co-catalysis of lipase and oxovanadium compounds in a one-pot process to produce multisubstituted tricyclic carbon frameworks in high yields and high enantioselectivities. The key to the success of this process was the discovery that the silyl group attached to the terminal carbon of the vinyl moiety completely controls the direction of hydroxy group migration.