142-83-6Relevant articles and documents
A Diels-Alder macrocyclization enables an efficient asymmetric synthesis of the antibacterial natural product abyssomicin C
Zapf, Christoph W.,Harrison, Bryce A.,Drahl, Carmen,Sorensen, Erik J.
, p. 6533 - 6537 (2005)
An efficient and highly diastereoselective intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction is the basis of a concise asymmetric synthesis of the potent antibacterial natural product abyssomicin C (see formula). The complexity of the target structure was reduced to three fragments and required two carbonyl addition reactions to achieve key bond formations. (Figure Presented).
Cu(II)-catalyzed selective aerobic oxidation of alcohols under mild conditions
Jiang, Nan,Ragauskas, Arthur J.
, p. 7087 - 7090 (2006)
Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation. An efficient four-component system consisting of acetamido-TEMPO/Cu(ClO4)2/TMDP/DABCO in DMSO has been developed for room-temperature aerobic alcohol oxidation. Under the optimal conditions, various alcohols could be converted into their corresponding aldehydes or ketones in good to excellent yields. The newly developed catalytic system could also be recycled and reused for three runs without any significant loss of catalytic activity.
Step-Economic Synthesis of Biomimetic β-Ketopolyene Thioesters and Demonstration of Their Usefulness in Enzymatic Biosynthesis Studies
Hahn, Frank,Ro?, Theresa,Schr?der, Marius,Wunderlich, Johannes
supporting information, (2020/07/04)
Studies on the biosynthetic processing of polyene thioester intermediates are complicated by limited access to appropriate substrate surrogates. We present a step-economic synthetic access to biomimetic β-ketopolyene thioesters that is based on an Ir-catalyzed reductive Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons olefination. New β-ketotriene and pentaenethioates of pantetheine and N-acetylcysteamine were exemplarily synthesized via short and concise routes. The usefulness of these compounds was demonstrated in an in vitro assay with the ketoreductase domain MycKRB from mycolactone biosynthesis.
Length-Selective Synthesis of Acylglycerol-Phosphates through Energy-Dissipative Cycling
Bonfio, Claudia,Caumes, Cécile,Duffy, Colm D.,Patel, Bhavesh H.,Percivalle, Claudia,Tsanakopoulou, Maria,Sutherland, John D.
supporting information, p. 3934 - 3939 (2019/03/08)
The main aim of origins of life research is to find a plausible sequence of transitions from prebiotic chemistry to nascent biology. In this context, understanding how and when phospholipid membranes appeared on early Earth is critical to elucidating the prebiotic pathways that led to the emergence of primitive cells. Here we show that exposing glycerol-2-phosphate to acylating agents leads to the formation of a library of acylglycerol-phosphates. Medium-chain acylglycerol-phosphates were found to self-assemble into vesicles stable across a wide range of conditions and capable of retaining mono- and oligonucleotides. Starting with a mixture of activated carboxylic acids of different lengths, iterative cycling of acylation and hydrolysis steps allowed for the selection of longer-chain acylglycerol-phosphates. Our results suggest that a selection pathway based on energy-dissipative cycling could have driven the selective synthesis of phospholipids on early Earth.
