An Insight into Substrate-Dependent Fluorination of some Highly Substituted Alicyclic Scaffolds

The substrate-dependent fluorination of some highly-functionalized cyclopentane derivatives with multiple chiral centers has been investigated. The key steps of the stereocontrolled syntheses are the oxidative cleavage of the ring carbon–carbon double bond of readily available diexo or diendo norbornene β-amino acid derivatives followed by transformation of the resulted dialdehyde stereoisomers by reduction. Finally, substrate-directable chemodifferentiation of different types of hydroxy groups under fluorination procedures gave various densely functionalized alicyclic derivatives or heterocycles.