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Asymmetric Total Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of the Natural PDE4 Inhibitor Toddacoumalone
Hou, Ke-Qiang,Chen, Xue-Ping,Huang, Yiyou,Chan, Albert S. C.,Luo, Hai-Bin,Xiong, Xiao-Feng
, p. 584 - 588 (2020)
We describe herein the first asymmetric total synthesis and biological evaluation of the natural PDE4 inhibitor toddacoumalone and its stereoisomers. The key step of the total synthesis is a formal asymmetric [4 + 2] cycloaddition reaction catalyzed by chiral secondary amine catalysts. A variety of pyranoquinolinones and 3-methylcrotonaldehyde are well tolerated under the optimized reaction conditions, which paved the way for further SAR studies. Further biological evaluation showed 1a′ with the best PDE4 inhibitory activity (IC50 = 0.18 μM).