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Total synthesis of the antimitotic marine macrolide (-)-leiodermatolide.


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Article

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Authors

Ng, Kenneth K-H 
Williams, Simon 
Millican, David C 
Dalby, Stephen M 

Abstract

Leiodermatolide is an antimitotic macrolide isolated from the marine sponge Leiodermatium sp. whose potentially novel tubulin-targeting mechanism of action makes it an exciting lead for anticancer drug discovery. In pursuit of a sustainable supply, we report a highly stereocontrolled total synthesis (3.2% yield) based on a convergent sequence of palladium-mediated fragment assembly and macrolactonization. Boron-mediated aldol reactions were used to configure the three key fragments 2, 5, and 6 by employing the appropriate enantiomer of the lactate-derived ketone 7.

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Keywords

aldol reaction, antitumor agents, cross-coupling, macrolides, total synthesis, Animals, Antimitotic Agents, Macrolides, Molecular Conformation, Porifera, Stereoisomerism

Journal Title

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

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Journal ISSN

1433-7851
1521-3773

Volume Title

53

Publisher

Wiley
Sponsorship
This research was supported by a SCAST postgraduate research scholarship (K.K.-H.N.), the Todd-Raphael Fund (S.W.), and Clare College, Cambridge (S.M.D.). We thank Dr. Amy Wright (HBOI, Florida Atlantic University) for helpful discussions and the EPSRC UK National Mass Spectrometry Facility at Swansea University.