Diastereoselective cationic tandem cyclizations to N-heterocyclic scaffolds: total synthesis of (-)-dysibetaine PP.

[reaction: see text] Herein, we report a short and diastereoselective synthesis of the natural product (-)-dysibetaine PP. The key step in the synthetic sequence is a novel highly diastereoselective tandem-cyclization reaction of an enantiomerically pure dipeptide. This cyclization methodology is applied in the synthesis of a broader range of N-heterocyclic scaffolds.