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Structure elucidation and total synthesis of kulkenon
Symkenberg, Gerrit,Kalesse, Markus
, p. 1795 - 1798 (2014/03/21)
The impressive biological profile of secondary metabolites isolated from strains of Sorangium cellulosum prompted us to initiate synthetic studies on kulkenon, also isolated from Sorangium cellulosum. The synthesis features a syn-selective vinylogous Kobayashi aldol reaction, recently developed by us, and a ring-closing intramolecular Heck reaction as the pivotal transformations. Comparison of the NMR spectra of the authentic and synthetic material revealed that the proposed configuration had to be revised. A combination of molecular modeling and NOE experiments was used to propose the revised configuration, which was confirmed by a new synthesis. Similar but not identical: The related natural products sulfangolid and kulkenon exhibit different configurations, which only became apparent by synthesizing the proposed structure and comparison with the authentic data. A combination of NOE experiments and computational conformational search identified the correct structure of kulkenon. Copyright
