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An abiotic strategy for the enantioselective synthesis of erythromycin B
Hergenrother, Paul J.,Hodgson, Anne,Judd, Andrew S.,Lee, Wen-Cherng,Martin, Stephen F.
, p. 3278 - 3281 (2003)
Sweet success: The classical approach to macrolide antibiotics involves a macrocyclization followed by the introduction of the carbohydrate residue(s). Now for the first time, a glycosylated seco-acid (see scheme, left) was cyclized to give an intermediat
Total synthesis of erythromycin B
Breton, Philippe,Hergenrother, Paul J.,Hida, Tsuneaki,Hodgson, Anne,Judd, Andrew S.,Kraynack, Erica,Kym, Philip R.,Lee, Wen-Cherng,Loft, Michael S.,Yamashita, Masayuki,Martin, Stephen F.
, p. 5709 - 5729 (2008/02/07)
We report the details of the first total synthesis of erythromycin B using two different strategies for the end game. The first of these follows a classical approach in which the desosamine and cladinose residues are sequentially appended to a macrocyclic lactone, which was formed by cyclization of a seco acid derivative, to give a bis-glycosylated macrolide intermediate that is converted into erythromycin B. The second strategy features an abiotic approach in which a seco acid bearing a desosamine residue is cyclized to give a monoglycosylated macrocyclic lactone that is then transformed into erythromycin B via a sequence of steps involving refunctionalizations and a glycosylation to introduce the cladinose moiety. Attempts to prepare a bis-glycosylated seco acid by de novo synthesis were unsuccessful. The syntheses of the key seco acid intermediates feature the oxidative transformation of a furan containing C(3)-C(10) to provide a dioxabicyclo[3.3.1]nonenone that served as a template on which to create the stereocenters at C(6) and C(8). A stereoselective aldol reaction was used to establish the C(11)-C(15) segment, and a stereoselective crotylation was implemented to introduce the propionate subunit comprising C(1)-C(2).
