Synthèse totale du méthyl ester de la zincophorine et étude DFT du transfert d’hydrogène diastéréosélectif impliquant des intermédiaires radicalaires vicinaux à un ester

The focus of this thesis is the use of free radical chemistry for the introduction of stereogenic centres in propionate motifs and application of this methodology to the total synthesis of zincophorin methyl ester. This ionophore, with interesting biological properties, displays several synthetic challenges including an anti, anti, anti, anti polypropionate sequence and a trisubstituted trans tetrahydropyran. Recently, the renewed interest for polyether compounds as anticancer agents emphasizes the significance of versatile strategies to access these targets, as well as analogues thereof.  Over the last few years, our research group has been interested in the synthesis of acyclic polypropionates via a substrate-based strategy relying on two key reactions. The first one consists of a Mukaiyama aldol reaction between an alpha-chiral aldehyde and a tetrasubstituted enoxysilane bearing a carbon-halogen bond, where the stereochemical outcome depends on the monodentate or bidentate nature of the Lewis acid. The second key step involves the generation of a tertiary free radical, vicinal to an ester, which can be reduced diastereoselectively in presence of trialkyl tin hydride.  The first section illustrates the elaboration of trisubstituted tetrahydropyran motifs and the induction of vicinal stereogenic centres via a radical reduction. We discovered that the diastereoselective outcome of the iodoetherification cyclization reaction was dictated by the gamma-methyl group of alpha,beta-unsaturated esters. Moreover, we showed that both anti and syn reduction products could be accessed from a common radical intermediate, respectively by relying on the exocyclic or endocyclic effect during the reduction reaction.  Using a complementary strategy, we also revealed that the radical precursor could be accessed via a cycloetherification reaction in presence of a tetrasubstituted enoxysilane. A systematic investigation of the substituents on the ring indicated that certain stereochemical relationships led to a decrease in anti-selectivity.  The second section presents a DFT study, at the BHandHLYP/TZVP level of theory, of radical intermediates involved in hydrogen transfer. Using an energy decomposition analysis, we were able to rationalize the diastereoselective outcome of the reaction on the basis of the distortion energy (∆Ed‡) and interaction energy (∆Eint‡) required to access pro anti and pro syn transition states. Moreover, we have demonstrated that a Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) analysis can be used to interpret stereoelectronic interactions. Subsequently, an evaluation of radical intermediates bearing a borinate or an aluminate revealed that steric hindrance of the propionate chain was mainly responsible for the selective formation of anti and syn reduction products in the presence of a Lewis acid.  The last section describes the elaboration of the polypropionate sequence of zincophorin, and analogues thereof, from the substituted tetrahydropyran fragment. In our analysis, we have highlighted the necessity to limit the number of potential chelation sites to three during the aldol step under Cram-chelate conditions. Moreover, we demonstrated that the different aldol acetate motifs are accessible using a bulky enoxysilane. Finally, we showed that a similar reaction sequence can be used to access the C17–C25 fragment of its natural analogue CP-78,545 and have completed the most recent total synthesis of zincophorin methyl ester.

Keyphrases: BHandHLYP/TZVP, DFT, BHandHLYP/TZVP, DFT, Endocyclic Effect, Exocyclic Effect, Lewis Acid, Mukaiyama Aldol, Radical Reduction, Tetrahydropyran, Total Synthesis, Zincophorin