Starting from the oxygenated piperidine building block 20,two synthetic approaches to new building blocks (8R,8aS)-and (8R,8aR)-8-hydroxy-5-indolizidinones 19a/19b and 15a/15b have been developed,respectively. The first one is based on the trans-diastereoselective reductive alkylation (dr = 93:7),followed by a four-step procedure; and the second one called for the RCM reaction on the N,O-acetal derived from a vinylation,which was followed by a pyrrole formation,and a stereocontrolled cis-selective (dr = 91:9) catalytic hydrogenation. Reduction of the diastereomer 15a produced (8R,8aR)-8-indolizidinol (18).
