Total synthesis of the putative structure of the marine metabolite trunkamide A

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(99)00957-0

The structure assigned to trunkamide A, a cycloheptapeptide alkaloid isolated from the colonial ascidian Lissoclinum sp., was prepared via segment condensations and an efficient oxazoline-thiazoline interconversion. The novel reverse prenylated serine and