Total synthesis of (-)-pulvomycin
Final Report Abstract
The pulvomycins are labile polyketide natural products containing three 1,3,5- triene unit, one sugar fragment (labilose) and a 22-membered macrolactone ring. Pulvomycin A displays a known and well understood antibiotic activity while pulvomycin D displays a cytotoxicity that has so far been studied only cursorily. Both compounds differ only in the oxidation state at carbon atom C13 (alcohol vs. ketone). The synthesis of a protected precursor to both pulvomycins succeeded by an assembly of three building blocks which contained the skeletal carbon atoms C1- C7, C8-C23, and C24-C40 (22 synthetic steps in the longest sequence with an average yield of 76% per step). Key reactions of the synthesis included a diastereoselective aldol reaction, a site-selective esterification, and an intra- molecular Heck reaction. The removal of six silyl protecing groups in the protected precursor and the liberation of the masked triene by a Peterson elimination required a two-step deprotection protocol. The alcohol at C13 was concomitantly oxidized completing the total synthesis of pulvomycin D, the first pulvomycin ever prepared synthetically.
Publications
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‘Total synthesis of (−)-Bretonin B: Access to the (E,Z,E)-triene core by a latestage Peterson elimination of a convergently assembled silyl ether‘ Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 11629-11631
Neubauer, Thomas; Kammerer-Pentier, Claire & Bach, Thorsten
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‘Enantioselective synthesis of the C24-C40 fragment of (−)-pulvomycin‘ Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 4901-4903
S. Börding, T. Bach
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‘Studies towards the Synthesis of (−)-Pulvomycin: Construction of the C12-C40 Segment by a Stereoselective Aldol Reaction‘ Synthesis 2021, 54, 4246-4262
Bach, Thorsten; Wienhold, Sebastian; Fritz, Lukas; Judt, Tatjana; Hackl, Sabrina; Neubauer, Thomas & Sauerer, Bastian
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‘Total Synthesis of Pulvomycin D‘ Chem. Eur. J. 2022, 28
Fritz, Lukas; Wienhold, Sebastian; Hackl, Sabrina & Bach, Thorsten
