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SUBMITTER: Akasapu S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6383332 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Akasapu Siddhartha S Hinds Aaron B AB Powell Wyatt C WC Walczak Maciej A MA
Chemical science 20181203 7
Thiopeptides are a class of potent antibiotics with promising therapeutic potential. We developed a novel Mo(vi)-oxide/picolinic acid catalyst for the cyclodehydration of cysteine peptides to form thiazoline heterocycles. With this powerful tool in hand, we completed the total syntheses of two representative thiopeptide antibiotics: micrococcin P1 and thiocillin I. These two concise syntheses (15 steps, longest linear sequence) feature a C-H activation strategy to install the trisubstituted pyri ...[more]