合成路线1

6-Methoxy-2-tetralone (I) was condensed with pyrrolidine (II) to produce enamine (III). Alkylation of (III) with benzyl bromide, followed by hydrolysis of the enamine function, furnished the 1-benzylnaphthalenone (IV). After formation of the chiral enamine (VI) with (S)-alpha-methylbenzylamine (V), enantioselective Michael addition of methyl vinyl ketone (VII) provided the (R)-diketone (VIII), which underwent ring closure to the phenanthrene derivative (IX) upon treatment with NaOMe. Methyl ether cleavage by using boron trichloride in the presence of tetrabutylammonium iodide afforded phenol (X). The conjugated ketone system of (X) was diastereoselectively reduced to the trans-phenanthrenone (XI) by means of lithium in liquid ammonia. Addition of the lithium acetylide of propyne (XII) to the ketone (XI) produced a diastereomeric mixture of carbinols from which the desired isomer (XIII) was isolated by flash chromatography. The phenol group of (XIII) was then converted to the aryl triflate (XIV) by reaction with trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride and 2,6-lutidine.