Total synthesis of (+/-)-halichlorine, (+/-)-pinnaic acid, and (+/-)-tauropinnaic acid.

ABSTRACT: The related marine natural products halichlorine, pinnaic acid, and tauropinnaic acid have been synthesized. The described route provided access to all three compounds from a common, late-stage intermediate. The synthesis began with 1-pyrrolidino-1-cyclopentene from which an intermediate possessing the three contiguous stereocenters of the natural products was synthesized in just four steps. Olefin cross metathesis followed by a hydrogenation/hydrogenolysis reaction stereoselectively formed the piperidine ring. Use of a beta-lactam group provided internal protection for the highly congested nitrogen atom during side-chain elaboration. The beta-lactam was subsequently reduced directly to an amino aldehyde, which after the Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction was elaborated to pinnaic acid. The

SUBMITTER: Christie HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC514438 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature