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Total syntheses of (±)-platencin and (-)-platencin
Nicolaou,Tria, G. Scott,Edmonds, David J.,Kar, Moumita
supporting information; experimental part, p. 15909 - 15917 (2010/01/30)
The secondary metabolites platensimycin and platencin, isolated from the bacterial strain Streptomyces platensis, represent a novel class of natural products exhibiting unique and potent antibacterial activity. Platencin, though structurally similar to platensimycin, has been found to operate through a slightly different mechanism of action involving the dual inhibition of lipid elongation enzymes FabF and FabH. Both natural products exhibit strong, broad-spectrum, Gram-positive antibacterial activity to key antibiotic resistant strains, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus, and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium. Described herein are our synthetic efforts toward platencin, culminating in both racemic and asymmetric preparation of the natural product. The syntheses demonstrate the power of the cobalt-catalyzed asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction and the one-pot reductive rearrangement of [3.2.1] bicyclic ketones to [2.2.2] bicyclic olefins.
Tricarbonylcyclohexadienyliron Complexes as Aryl Equivalents: A Formal Synthesis of (+/-)-O-Methyljoubertiamine
Pearson, Anthony J.,Richards, Ian C.,Gardner, Derek V.
, p. 3887 - 3891 (2007/10/02)
The use of tricarbonyl(4-methoxycyclohexadienyl)iron hexafluorophosphate 1b as a synthetic equivalent of the p-anisyl cation for a formal synthesis of (+/-)-O-methyljoubertiamine is described.