Abstract
This work was devoted to the use of a chiral sulfoxide to perform an asymmetric polarized Nazarov cyclization. A methodology involving a Knoevenagel condensation has been developed for the synthesis of divinylketones bearing a chiral sulfoxide in α-position.This auxiliary led to a rotation direction selectivity, called torquoselectivity, for the orbitals involving during the electrocyclization. A pentannelation diastereodivergence could be developed from dihydropyran-containing substrats that showed a torquoselectivity switch depending to the used Lewis acid.(Hétéro)-aromatic substrates cyclization also showed significant torquoselectivities, this allowed the first non-racemic synthesis of a gallic acid-based indanone, an anticancer agent.Thereafter, stereodivergente reduction of the cyclopentenone carbonyl gave the two corresponding carbinolic epimers. In parallel, the chiral inductor oxidation into sulfone allowed a total diastereoselective allylation. Finally, C-S bond cleavage, as sulfide or sulfone, afforded dihydropyran-fused-cyclopentane rings bearing functionalized substituents with excellent stereocontrol.