63544-00-3Relevant articles and documents
Preparation of dicarboxylate analogues of Cerulenin
Moseley, Jonathan D.,Staunton, James
, p. 819 - 830 (2007/10/03)
We have proposed and synthesized several new structural classes of Cerulenin analogues, which have potential as inhibitors of both fatty acid and polyketide synthase multi-enzyme complexes. These analogues contain cis epoxides bearing flanking carboxylate groups. Our syntheses have been designed to allow access to a wide range of fatty acid and polyketide-like side chains from readily available starting materials in convergent fashion in just four to five steps. In total, ～40 potential analogues have been prepared and characterized, covering all the structural sub-classes proposed, the majority of which constitute novel functional groupings.
A stereocontrolled approach to electrophilic epoxides
Meth-Cohn, Otto,Moore, Clive,Taljaard, Heinrich C.
, p. 2663 - 2674 (2007/10/02)
Lithium t-butyl hydroperoxide (easily generated by addition of an alkyl-lithium to anhydrous t-butyl hydroperoxide in THF solution) is a powerful reagent for the epoxidation of electrophilic alkenes at -20 to 0 °C under full stereocontrol. Thus αβ-unsaturated esters, sulphones, sulphoximines, and amides are readily epoxidised with complete regio- and stereo-specificity and with considerable chiroselectivity (20-100%) when appropriate chiral auxiliaries such as menthyl, 8-phenylmenthyl, or a camphor-sulphonamide derivative are used. Asymmetric αβ-unsaturated sulphoximines undergo epoxidation with 100% diastereoselectivity. The only exceptions to stereocontrol noted are heavily substituted maleate esters such as di-t-butyl maleate. The αβ-epoxy amides are shown to be valuable sources of the corresponding epoxy ketones by treatment with an organolithium, allowing a stereo- and chemoselective entry in high yield to these useful intermediates.
