1609644-50-9Relevant academic research and scientific papers
A platform for the discovery of new macrolide antibiotics
Seiple, Ian B.,Zhang, Ziyang,Jakubec, Pavol,Langlois-Mercier, Audrey,Wright, Peter M.,Hog, Daniel T.,Yabu, Kazuo,Allu, Senkara Rao,Fukuzaki, Takehiro,Carlsen, Peter N.,Kitamura, Yoshiaki,Zhou, Xiang,Condakes, Matthew L.,Szczypiński, Filip T.,Green, William D.,Myers, Andrew G.
, p. 338 - 345 (2016)
The chemical modification of structurally complex fermentation products, a process known as semisynthesis, has been an important tool in the discovery and manufacture of antibiotics for the treatment of various infectious diseases. However, many of the therapeutics obtained in this way are no longer effective, because bacterial resistance to these compounds has developed. Here we present a practical, fully synthetic route to macrolide antibiotics by the convergent assembly of simple chemical building blocks, enabling the synthesis of diverse structures not accessible by traditional semisynthetic approaches. More than 300 new macrolide antibiotic candidates, as well as the clinical candidate solithromycin, have been synthesized using our convergent approach. Evaluation of these compounds against a panel of pathogenic bacteria revealed that the majority of these structures had antibiotic activity, some efficacious against strains resistant to macrolides in current use. The chemistry we describe here provides a platform for the discovery of new macrolide antibiotics and may also serve as the basis for their manufacture.
Stereocontrolled synthesis of syn-β-hydroxy-α-amino acids by direct aldolization of pseudoephenamine glycinamide
Seiple, Ian B.,Mercer, Jaron A. M.,Sussman, Robin J.,Zhang, Ziyang,Myers, Andrew G.
, p. 4642 - 4647 (2014/05/20)
β-Hydroxy-α-amino acids figure prominently as chiral building blocks in chemical synthesis and serve as precursors to numerous important medicines. Reported herein is a method for the synthesis of β-hydroxy- α-amino acid derivatives by aldolization of pseudoephenamine glycinamide, which can be prepared from pseudoephenamine in a one-flask protocol. Enolization of (R,R)- or (S,S)-pseudoephenamine glycinamide with lithium hexamethyldisilazide in the presence of LiCl followed by addition of an aldehyde or ketone substrate affords aldol addition products that are stereochemically homologous with L- or D-threonine, respectively. These products, which are typically solids, can be obtained in stereoisomerically pure form in yields of 55-98 %, and are readily transformed into β-hydroxy-α-amino acids by mild hydrolysis or into 2-amino-1,3-diols by reduction with sodium borohydride. This new chemistry greatly facilitates the construction of novel antibiotics of several different classes. On aldol: Enolization of (R,R)- or (S,S)-pseudoephenamine glycinamide with lithium hexamethyldisilazide (LiHMDS) in the presence of LiCl followed by addition of either an aldehyde or ketone substrate affords aldol addition products which are stereochemically homologous with L- or D-threonine, respectively. These products can be obtained in stereoisomerically pure form in yields of 55-98 %, and are readily transformed into β-hydroxy-α-amino acids by mild hydrolysis or into 2-amino-1,3-diols by reduction.
