Synthesis and potent antimalarial activity of kalihinol B.

ABSTRACT: Of the 50+ kalihinane diterpenoids reported to date, only five had been tested for antimalarial activity, in spite of the fact that kalihinol A is the most potent among the members of the larger family of antimalarial isocyanoterpenes. We have validated a strategy designed to access many of the kalihinanes with a 12-step enantioselective synthesis of kalihinol B, the tetrahydrofuran isomer of kalihinol A (a tetrahydropyran). Kalihinol B shows similarly high potency against chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum.

SUBMITTER: Daub ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4415034 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature