(16) Alkylation of commercially available ОІ-ketoester 20 (18) with alkyl iodide 21 (accessed in racemic form from 3-bromo-1-propanol in nine steps) (19) proceeds in 78% yield to provide the alkylated ОІ-ketoester adduct ( 22). Our planned synthesis of hexacycle 15 commenced with the preparation of alkynylindene 19 (Scheme 2) as previously described. In turn, tricycle 17 was envisioned from benzocycloheptadiene 18, which would be prepared from alkynylindene 19 using a Ga(III)-catalyzed cycloisomerization reaction developed in our laboratories. Piperidine polycycle 16 could arise from amino alcohol 17 through a C20вЂ“N bond formation. (8) Inspired by this powerful complexity building transformation, we envisioned the hetidine core (see 15, Scheme 1) arising from methoxyarene 16, where in the forward sense, the requisite diene for the IMDA reaction would be fashioned from the arene using a Birch reduction as previously demonstrated by Gin and Peese. From our perspective, the installation of the bicycle has been most elegantly addressed by Gin and Peese, who employed an intramolecular DielsвЂ“Alder (IMDA) reaction to forge the bicycle in their synthesis of nominine. Our initial forays into the synthesis of the hetidine core sought to address the first of these challenges by preparing 15. These are the installation of the bicycle and the position-selective introduction of oxygenation, which for many of these molecules is required at sites distal from other functional groups. (3) (4) Figure 1ДЇrom our synthetic analysis of the C 20вЂ“diterpenoid alkaloids in the atisine, hetidine and hetisine skeletal subclasses, two key challenges have emerged. The pharmaceutical potential of the diterpenoid alkaloids is continuing to emerge, and already, lappaconitine (allapinin, 1) and guan-fu base A ( 13, Figure 2 also known as acehytisine hydrochloride) (2) are marketed as antiarrhythmia agents. Overall, this broad spectrum of biological activity likely arises because of the potent interactions of these alkaloids with voltage-dependent sodium, potassium, and calcium ion channels. Other pharmacological effects that have been discovered in these plants, including analgesic effects and anti-inflammatory, myorelaxant, and antiarrhythmic properties, are also attributed to their diterpenoid alkaloid constituents. The majority of these metabolites have been isolated from the Aconitum, Consolida, Delphinium, Rumex, and Spiraea genera, and extracts from these plants have been used in traditional Eastern herbal medicine for centuries as sedatives and fever reducers. On the basis of the number of constituent carbons, these natural products are described as C 18-, C 19-, or C 20-diterpenoid alkaloids. To date, over 1100 natural products have been isolated and classified as diterpenoid alkaloids. In addition to their imposing skeletal intricacy, they possess varied, yet dense, arrays of hydroxylation.

(1) These molecules are among the most architecturally complex natural products isolated to date.

The diterpenoid alkaloids (see representative examples in Figure 1) are a collection of complex alkaloids isolated from the Ranunculaceae and Rosaceae family of plants.

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