Reconciling Icetexane Biosynthetic Connections with Their Chemical Synthesis: Total Synthesis of (.+-.)-5,6-Dihydro-6α-hydroxysalviasperanol (I), (.+-.)-Brussonol (II), and (.+-.)-Abrotanone (III).

ChemInform ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (44) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric M. Simmons ◽  
Jennifer R. Yen ◽  
Richmond Sarpong
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Newhouse ◽  
Daria E. Kim ◽  
Joshua E. Zweig

The diverse molecular architectures of terpene natural products are assembled by exquisite enzyme-catalyzed reactions. Successful recapitulation of these transformations using chemical synthesis is hard to predict from first principles and therefore challenging to execute. A means of evaluating the feasibility of such chemical reactions would greatly enable the development of concise syntheses of complex small molecules. Herein, we report the computational analysis of the energetic favorability of a key bio-inspired transformation, which we use to inform our synthetic strategy. This approach was applied to synthesize two constituents of the historically challenging indole diterpenoid class, resulting in a concise route to (–)-paspaline A in 9 steps from commercially available materials and the first pathway to and structural confirmation of emindole PB in 13 steps. This work highlights how traditional retrosynthetic design can be augmented with quantum chemical calculations to reveal energetically feasible synthetic disconnections, minimizing time-consuming and expensive empirical evaluation.


2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (22) ◽  
pp. 7730-7736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark D. Chappell ◽  
Christina R. Harris ◽  
Scott D. Kuduk ◽  
Aaron Balog ◽  
Zhicai Wu ◽  
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Molecules ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 2095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Qiu ◽  
Wen-Jian Lan ◽  
Hou-Jin Li ◽  
Liu-Ping Chen

Linear triquinane sesquiterpenoids represent an important class of natural products. Most of these compounds were isolated from fungi, sponges, and soft corals, and many of them displayed a wide range of biological activities. On account of their structural diversity and complexity, linear triquinane sesquiterpenoids present new challenges for chemical structure identification and total synthesis. 118 linear triquinane sesquiterpenoids were classified into 8 types, named types I–VIII, based on the carbon skeleton and the position of carbon substituents. Their isolation, structure elucidations, biological activities, and chemical synthesis were reviewed. This paper cited 102 articles from 1947 to 2018.


Molecules ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archanamayee Behera ◽  
Suvarn Kulkarni

Bacteria often contain rare deoxy amino sugars which are absent in the host cells. This structural difference can be harnessed for the development of vaccines. Over the last fifteen years, remarkable progress has been made toward the development of novel and efficient protocols for obtaining the rare sugar building blocks and their stereoselective assembly to construct conjugation ready bacterial glycans. In this review, we discuss the total synthesis of a variety of rare sugar containing bacterial glycoconjugates which are potential vaccine candidates.


2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (28) ◽  
pp. 5097-5101
Author(s):  
Yin-He Yang ◽  
Bin Di ◽  
Da-Song Yang

The first example of a counterintuitive freezing-induced peptide ligation was discovered during the total synthesis of human interferon-ε (187 amino acids) which blocks HIV infection through unique mechanisms.


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