Abstract
The first biomimetic conversion from the aconitine-type C19-diterpenoid alkaloids to the corresponding alkaloids of lactone-type C19-diterpenoid alkaloid has been achieved. Chasmanine was used as starting material with Baeyer–Villiger oxidation as a key reaction. It was also observed that the oxygenated group at C-16 did not change the relative migration tendencies of C-13 and C-9 during the oxidation. Meantime, a novel D-ring fragmented compound was obtained during the course of the present investigation. The plausible mechanism of the formation of this compound was also proposed.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30873147) for financial support of this research.