616-01-3Relevant articles and documents
Synthesis of 14C-labeled FAD-C44
Bieniarz, Christopher,Ramakrishna, Kornepati V.,Kelly, Terence P.
, p. 243 - 250 (2000)
Synthesis of 14C-labeled FAD-C44 1 at the tertiary carbon by the dimerization of 14C labeled erucic acid 2 is described. Labeling at the C-14 position of erucic acid is achieved by a convergent approach involving the Wittig coupling
Membrane-interacting properties of the functionalised fatty acid moiety of muraymycin antibiotics
Ries, Oliver,Carnarius, Christian,Steinem, Claudia,Ducho, Christian
, p. 879 - 886 (2015)
Functional insights into bioactive natural products with medicinal potential are often hindered by their structural complexity. We herein report a simplified model system to investigate the functional significance of a structural motif of biologically potent muraymycin antibiotics of the A-series. These compounds have a highly unusual ω-guanidinylated fatty acid moiety, which has been proposed to mediate membrane penetration, thus enabling the interaction of A-series muraymycins with their intracellular target MraY. Our assay was based on a synthetic conjugate of this fatty acid structure with a negatively charged fluorophore lacking membrane permeability. Using this conjugate, immobilised giant unilamellar lipid vesicles and confocal laser scanning fluorescence microscopy, we demonstrated that the attachment of the ω-N-hydroxy-guanidinyl fatty acid unit led to an enhanced uptake of the fluorophore into the vesicles. This represents the first experimental evidence of this unusual structural motif's functional relevance for the parent natural product, which may support the future design of novel muraymycin analogues.
Fe-catalyzed one-pot oxidative cleavage of unsaturated fatty acids into aldehydes with hydrogen peroxide and sodium periodate
Spannring, Peter,Yazerski, Vital,Bruijnincx, Pieter C. A.,Weckhuysen, Bert M.,Klein Gebbink, Robertus J. M.
, p. 15012 - 15018 (2013/11/06)
A one-pot method has been developed for the oxidative cleavage of internal alkenes into aldehydes by using 0.5mol % of the nonheme iron complex [Fe(OTf)2(mix-bpbp)] (bpbp=N,N'-bis(2-picolyl)-2,2'-bipyrrolidine) as catalyst and 1.5equivalents of hydrogen peroxide and 1equivalent of sodium periodate as oxidants. A mixture of diastereomers of the chiral bpbp ligand can be used, thereby omitting the need for resolution of its optically active components. The cleavage reaction can be performed in one pot within 20h and under ambient conditions. Addition of water after the epoxidation, acidification and subsequent pH neutralization are crucial to perform the epoxidation, hydrolysis, and subsequent diol cleavage in one pot. High aldehyde yields can be obtained for the cleavage of internal aliphatic double bonds with cis and trans configuration (86-98 %) and unsaturated fatty acids and esters (69-96 %). Good aldehyde yields are obtained in reactions of trisubstituted and terminal alkenes (62-63 %). The products can be easily isolated by a simple extraction step with an organic solvent. The presented protocol involves a lower catalyst loading than conventional methods based on Ru or Os. Also, hydrogen peroxide can be used as the oxidant in this case, which is often disproportionated by second- and third-row metals. By using only mild oxidants, overoxidation of the aldehyde to the carboxylic acid is prevented. Copyright
