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Tost M, Andler O, Kazmaier U. A Matteson Homologation‐Based Synthesis of Doliculide and Derivatives. European J Org Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202101345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Markus Tost
- Organic Chemistry Saarland University P.O. Box 151150 66041 Saarbrücken Germany
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- Organic Chemistry Saarland University P.O. Box 151150 66041 Saarbrücken Germany
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- Organic Chemistry Saarland University P.O. Box 151150 66041 Saarbrücken Germany
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Che W, Wen DC, Zhu S, Zhou Q. Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (−)‐Doliculide Using Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenations. Helv Chim Acta 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/hlca.201900023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Wen Che
- State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of ChemistryNankai University Tianjin 300071 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of ChemistryNankai University Tianjin 300071 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of ChemistryNankai University Tianjin 300071 P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of ChemistryNankai University Tianjin 300071 P. R. China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin) Tianjin 300071 P. R. China
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Kataoka N, Vangnai AS, Pongtharangkul T, Yakushi T, Matsushita K. Production of 1,3-diols in Escherichia coli. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2017; 245:1538-1541. [PMID: 28550991 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.05.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2017] [Revised: 05/13/2017] [Accepted: 05/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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To expand the diversity of chemical compounds produced through microbial conversion, a platform pathway for the production of widely used industrial chemicals, 1,3-diols, was engineered in Escherichia coli. The pathway was designed by modifying the previously reported (R)-1,3-butanediol synthetic pathway to consist of pct (propionate CoA-transferase) from Megasphaera elsdenii, bktB (thiolase), phaB (NADPH-dependent acetoacetyl-CoA reductase) from Ralstonia eutropha, bld (butyraldehyde dehydrogenase) from Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum, and the endogenous alcohol dehydrogenase(s) of E. coli. The recombinant E. coli strains produced 1,3-pentanediol, 4-methyl-1,3-pentanediol, and 1,2,4-butanetriol, together with 1,3-butanediol, from mixtures of glucose and propionate, isobutyrate, and glycolate, respectively, in shake flask cultures. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of microbial production of 1,3-pentanediol and 4-methyl-1,3-pentanediol.
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- Naoya Kataoka
- Division of Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan; Research Center for Thermotolerant Microbial Resources, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan.
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- Biocatalyst and Environmental Biotechnology Research Unit, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand; Center of Excellence in Hazardous Substance Management (HSM), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
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- Division of Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan; Research Center for Thermotolerant Microbial Resources, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan
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- Division of Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan; Research Center for Thermotolerant Microbial Resources, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan
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Hrabar M, Zhai H, Gries R, Schaefer PW, Draper J, Britton R, Gries G. (7E,11E)-3,5,9,11-Tetramethyltridecadienal: Sex Pheromone of the Strepsipteran Xenos peckii. J Chem Ecol 2015; 41:732-9. [PMID: 26271674 DOI: 10.1007/s10886-015-0613-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2015] [Revised: 07/20/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Xenos peckii is a strepsipteran parasitoid of the common North American paper wasp, Polistes fuscatus. Mate-seeking X. peckii males respond to a long-range sex pheromone emitted by the female, which remains permanently embedded within the abdomen of a mobile host wasp. During peak pheromone signalling, we excised the female from her host, severed the cephalothorax containing the pheromone gland, extracted it in hexane, and analyzed aliquots of combined extracts by coupled gas chromatographic-electroantennographic detection (GC-EAD). These analyses revealed a candidate pheromone component (CPC) that consistently elicited strong responses from male antennae. We identified the CPC as (7E,11E)-3,5,9,11-tetramethyltridecadienal based on its retention indices (RI) on three GC-columns, RI inter-column differentials, mass and NMR spectra, and synthesis of an authentic standard that matched the GC-retention and spectrometric characteristics of the CPC. For a field experiment, we prepared (7E,11E)-3,5,9R,11-tetramethyltridecadienal and (7E,11E)-3,5,9S,11-tetramethyltridecadienal. Xenos peckii males were caught in traps baited with either compound singly or a 1:1 mixture of the two but not in unbaited control traps. The sex pheromone of X. peckii resembles that reported for the strepsipterans Stylops mellittae and S. muelleri, (R,R,R)-3,5,9-trimethyldodecanal, suggesting a common biosynthetic pathway across taxonomic genera.
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- Michael Hrabar
- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada.,Chemistry Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada.
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Chen T, Altmann KH. Directed Hydrogenations and an Ireland-Claisen Rearrangement Linked to Evans-Tishchenko Chemistry: The Highly Efficient Total Synthesis of the Marine Cyclodepsipeptide Doliculide. Chemistry 2015; 21:8403-7. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201501252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2015] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Nakamura T, Harachi M, Kano T, Mukaeda Y, Hosokawa S. Concise Synthesis of Reduced Propionates by Stereoselective Reductions Combined with the Kobayashi Reaction. Org Lett 2013; 15:3170-3. [DOI: 10.1021/ol401406m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Tatsuya Nakamura
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
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Matcha K, Madduri AVR, Roy S, Ziegler S, Waldmann H, Hirsch AKH, Minnaard AJ. Total synthesis of (-)-doliculide, structure-activity relationship studies and its binding to F-actin. Chembiochem 2012; 13:2537-48. [PMID: 23129522 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201200512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2012] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Actin, an abundant protein in most eukaryotic cells, is one of the targets in cancer research. Recently, a great deal of attention has been paid to the synthesis and function of actin-targeting compounds and their use as effective molecular probes in chemical biology. In this study, we have developed an efficient synthesis of (-)-doliculide, a very potent actin binder with a higher cell-membrane permeability than phalloidin. Actin polymerization assays with (-)-doliculide and two analogues on HeLa and BSC-1 cells, together with a prediction of their binding mode to F-actin by unbiased computational docking, show that doliculide stabilizes F-actin in a similar way to jasplakinolide and chondramide C.
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- Kiran Matcha
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Affiliation(s)
- Stephen Hanessian
- Department of Chemistry, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succursale
Centre-Ville Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada
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Diez PS, Micalizio GC. Convergent synthesis of deoxypropionates. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012; 51:5152-6. [PMID: 22488893 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201200035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2012] [Revised: 02/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Peter S Diez
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 130 Scripps Way #3A2, Jupiter, FL 33458, USA
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Weise CF, Pischl MC, Pfaltz A, Schneider C. A general, asymmetric, and noniterative synthesis of trideoxypropionates. Straightforward syntheses of the pheromones (+)-vittatalactone and (+)-norvittatalactone. J Org Chem 2012; 77:1477-88. [PMID: 22188256 DOI: 10.1021/jo202330b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A novel, highly stereocontrolled, and very flexible synthetic access to biologically relevant trideoxypropionate building blocks in optically pure form has been developed. On the basis of a three-step sequence comprising a thermal oxy-Cope rearrangement, an iridium-catalyzed hydrogenation, and an auxiliary-controlled enolate methylation, trideoxypropionates with easily adjustable relative configuration were synthesized in excellent yields. In addition, the functionalized end groups allow for chemoselective manipulations and further elongation of the chain. The underlying strategy constitutes the first noniterative process for the assembly of polydeoxypropionates and has further been applied in total syntheses of the pheromones (+)-vittatalactone and (+)-norvittatalactone, which had been isolated from the striped cucumber beetle Acalymma vittatum.
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- Christian F Weise
- Institut für Organische Chemie, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 29, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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An enantioselective catalytic approach to syn deoxypropionate units combining asymmetric Cu-catalyzed 1,6- and 1,4-conjugate addition. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetasy.2010.04.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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ter Horst B, Feringa BL, Minnaard AJ. Iterative strategies for the synthesis of deoxypropionates. Chem Commun (Camb) 2010; 46:2535-47. [PMID: 20449305 DOI: 10.1039/b926265b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This feature article gives an overview of iterative synthetic methods for the construction of deoxypropionates, an important class of polyketides. The catalytic and non-catalytic methodologies discussed are based on highly stereoselective reactions which can be carried out in an iterative fashion. Non-catalytic methods are described first, followed by state of the art catalytic iterative protocols. The application of the iterative methods in the synthesis of natural products is discussed as well.
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- Bjorn ter Horst
- Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Yamada K, Ojika M, Kigoshi H, Suenaga K. Cytotoxic substances from two species of Japanese sea hares: chemistry and bioactivity. PROCEEDINGS OF THE JAPAN ACADEMY. SERIES B, PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2010; 86:176-89. [PMID: 20228619 PMCID: PMC3417844 DOI: 10.2183/pjab.86.176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2009] [Accepted: 01/22/2010] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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From the sea hares belonging to two genera, Aplysia and Dolabella, a variety of new cytotoxic substances were isolated as minute constituents: their chemical structures were determined and their cytotoxicity was evaluated. Regarding the highly cytotoxic substances, further chemical and biological studies were performed that included their asymmetric chemical synthesis and elucidation of biological characteristics such as antitumor activity.
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- Kiyoyuki Yamada
- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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Jahn U, Kafka F, Pohl R, Jones PG. N,3,4-Trisubstituted pyrrolidines by electron transfer-induced oxidative cyclizations of N-allylic β-amino ester enolates. Tetrahedron 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2009.10.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Hanessian S, Chahal N, Giroux S. Iterative synthesis of deoxypropionate units: the inductor effect in acyclic conformation design. J Org Chem 2007; 71:7403-11. [PMID: 16958535 DOI: 10.1021/jo061098o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Conjugate addition of lithium dimethylcuprate to acyclic alpha,beta-unsaturated esters of varying lengths bearing terminal alkyl or phenyl groups leads to a preponderance of syn 1,3-adducts when one methyl is already present. Conversion to enoates, and iteration of cuprate additions also favors syn adducts to give contiguous deoxypropionate units in a growing chain. The effect of end-group variation (Me, i-Pr, phenyl, tert-butyl) in conjunction with the nature of the ester group (Me, tert-butyl, etc.) on the diastereoselectivity of syn and anti products was studied. The results are rationalized in terms of inductor effects related to the minimization of the 1,5-pentane interactions in energetically favored folded conformations and corroborated by homodecoupling NMR studies.
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- Stephen Hanessian
- Department of Chemistry, Université de Montréal, P.O. Box 6128, Station Centre-ville Montréal, P.Q. H3C 3J7.
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Herber C, Breit B. Iterative deoxypropionate synthesis based on a copper-mediated directed allylic substitution: formal total synthesis of borrelidin (C3-C11 fragment). Chemistry 2007; 12:6684-91. [PMID: 16773665 DOI: 10.1002/chem.200600343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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A new iterative strategy for the flexible preparation of any oligodeoxypropionate stereoisomer is presented which relies on an o-DPPB-directed copper mediated allylic substitution employing enantiomerically pure Grignard reagents; the reaction is working with perfect control over all aspects of the reaction selectivity. This key C--C bond-forming step features reversed polarity compared with established enolate alkylation methodology. It thus avoids existing problems of enolate alkylation strategies such as enolate reactivity as well as costs and problems associated with the chiral auxiliary. Practicability of this new method is demonstrated through application in natural product syntheses. Thus, an efficient synthesis of the northern part of the angiogenesis inhibitor borrelidin (28), the deoxypropionate building block 27, could be devised, representing a formal total synthesis.
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- Christian Herber
- Institut für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Albertstrasse 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Kireev AS, Manpadi M, Kornienko A. Selectivity guidelines and a reductive elimination-based model for predicting the stereochemical course of conjugate addition reactions of organocuprates to gamma-alkoxy-alpha,beta-enoates. J Org Chem 2007; 71:2630-40. [PMID: 16555814 PMCID: PMC2633620 DOI: 10.1021/jo052383v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Current models used to predict the stereochemical outcome of organocopper conjugate addition processes focus on the nucleophilic addition step as stereochemistry-determining. Recent kinetic, NMR, kinetic isotope effect, and theoretical density functional studies strongly support the proposal that stereochemical preferences in these processes are dictated by the reductive elimination step, transforming Cu(III) to Cu(I) intermediates. A new model that considers various steric and stereoelectronic factors involved in the transition state of the reductive elimination step is proposed and then used to interpret the results of systematic studies of arylcuprate conjugate addition reactions with cis and trans gamma-alkoxy-alpha,beta-enoates. The results give rise to the following selectivity guidelines for this process. To achieve high anti-addition diastereoselectivities the use of trans esters with a bulky nonalkoxy substituent at the gamma-position is recommended. While stereoelectronics disfavor syn-addition, a judicious choice of properly sized gamma-substituents may lead to the predominant formation of syn-products, especially with cis enoates. However, high syn-selectivities may be achieved by using gamma-amino-alpha,beta-enoates.
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- Artem S Kireev
- Department of Chemistry, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, USA
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Liang B, Novak T, Tan Z, Negishi EI. Catalytic, efficient, and syn-selective construction of deoxypolypropionates and other chiral compounds via Zr-catalyzed asymmetric carboalumination of allyl alcohol. J Am Chem Soc 2006; 128:2770-1. [PMID: 16506734 DOI: 10.1021/ja0530974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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An efficient, syn-selective, all catalytic asymmetric protocol for the synthesis of alpha,omega-diheterofunctional deoxypolypropionates via Zr-catalyzed asymmetric carboalumination (ZACA reaction) was developed. The success of the method critically hinges on the one-pot conversion of unprotected allyl alcohol into TBS-protected (R)- or (S)-3-iodo-2-methyl-1-propanol (1) of 91% enantiomeric purity in 82% yield via (i) Zr-catalyzed asymmetric methylalumination, (ii) iodination, and (iii) protection with TBSCl. After zincation of 1, its Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling with various organic halides can give various organic derivatives, including 3 and 4, which can serve as key intermediates for efficient and selective syntheses of deoxypolypropionates, such as doliculide and 2,4,6,8-tetramethyldecanoic acid, and other chiral compounds, such as callystatin A. Selective monocarboalumination of 1,4-pentadiene (5 equiv) gave, after oxidation, the expected product 5, but it was 0% ee. A plausible mechanism for racemization has been proposed and experimentally supported.
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- Bo Liang
- Herbert C. Brown Laboratories of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2084, USA
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An overview of marine natural products synthesis during 2004 is provided. As with the previous installment of this series, the emphasis is on total syntheses of molecules of contemporary interest, new total syntheses, and syntheses that have resulted in structure confirmation or stereochemical assignments.
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- Gillian M Nicholas
- Roche Colorado Corporation, 2075 North 55th St., Boulder, Colorado 80301, USA
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Della Monica C, Della Sala G, De Riccardis F, Izzo I, Spinella A. Total synthesis of bioactive peptides and depsipeptides from marine opisthobranch molluscs. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR AND SUBCELLULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 43:333-61. [PMID: 17153350 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30880-5_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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This chapter covers the synthetic aspects of both linear or cyclic peptides and depsipeptides isolated from opisthobranch molluscs. In many cases, synthetic effort not only determined the absolute stereostructure of these compounds but also made it possible to supply sufficient amounts for the evaluation of pharmacological activities. A summary of the synthetic work associated with each compound is reported after a short description of its natural source and biological properties. Discussion in the text concentrates on key reactions and synthetic efficiency.
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- C Della Monica
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Salerno, Via S. Allende, 84081 Baronissi (Salerno), Italy
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