Total synthesis of the antimitotic marine macrolide (-)-leiodermatolide.
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Authors
Paterson, Ian https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8861-9136
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
1521-3773
Volume Title
53
Publisher
Wiley
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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.