The asymmetric synthesis of fagomine and its congeners 1-4 has been achieved by catalytic ring-closing metathesis (RCM). The synthesis involved the construction of the piperidene-type chiral building block 5 followed by dihydroxylation, starting from the d-serine-derived Garner aldehyde 6.
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