Practical synthesis of hydroxamate-derived siderophore components by an indirect oxidation method and syntheses of a DIG-siderophore conjugate and a biotin-siderophore conjugate

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo990769y

A practical large-scale synthesis of hydroxamate-derived siderophore components (30 and 40) that utilizes an efficient indirect oxidation method is described and applied to the syntheses of nonradioactive labeled siderophores. Oxidation of imines derived from L-ornithine (17) and its tripeptide (19) afforded oxaziridines that were isomerized to stable nitrones (16 and 18). Acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of nitrones provided hydroxylamines that were converted to the desired hydroxamic acids (30 and 40) suitable for constructing siderophore-drug conjugates (2). The entire synthetic sequence required no chromatographic separation. DIG- and biotin-labeled ferrichrome analogues designed to detect and isolate ferrichrome receptors in various microbes were also synthesized.