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Chemistry, Organic
Ryohei Hanzawa, Haruhiko Fuwa
Summary: A collective asymmetric total synthesis of marine tricyclic alkaloids, cylindricines A-H, as well as the proposed structures of cylindricines I and J, was accomplished from a single common spirocyclic pyrrolidine intermediate in a concise manner. A tandem chemoselective oxidation/intramolecular aza-Michael addition/epimerization strategy was utilized to successfully construct the tricyclic skeleton. This work presents a versatile synthetic approach to the cylindricine family of marine tricyclic alkaloids.
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Chemistry, Organic
Yulong Zhao, Jiaxin Li, Ruize Ma, Feifei He, Hongliang Shi, Xiaoguang Duan, Huilin Li, Xingang Xie, Xuegong She
Summary: The total synthesis of the indole alkaloid (-)-an-dranginine has been achieved in 10 steps, involving key reactions including nucleophilic addition of acetylenyl anion, intramolecular N-alkylation reaction, and dienyne metathesis cascade reaction.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Remi Andres, Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu
Summary: A divergent asymmetric total synthesis of voacafricines A and B, hexacyclic monoterpene indole alkaloids, has been achieved by several key steps, including a catalyst-controlled asymmetric Pictet-Spengler reaction, oxidative cleavage, and intramolecular nucleophilic addition. The synthesis confirmed the absolute configuration of these natural products.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2023)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Xiu-Ning Hu, Dong-Ping Wu, Ye-Peng Xu, Pei-Qiang Huang
Summary: The first organocatalytic asymmetric synthesis of an advanced intermediate of (+)-sarain A was achieved by combining organocatalytic asymmetric Michael addition reaction and a nitrogen-to-carbon chirality transfer. This method allows for the construction of three chiral centers and chemoselective reduction of a key lactam intermediate, providing a tricyclic intermediate with all necessary functionalities for further elaboration into (+)-sarain A.
CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
(2021)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Xianhuang Zeng, Dale L. Boger
Summary: The total synthesis of (-)-strempeliopine involves a powerful SmI2-mediated and BF3 center dot OEt2-initiated dearomative transannular radical cyclization onto an indole, resulting in the formation of a quaternary center and the strategic C19-C2 bond in its core structure.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2021)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Alexander W. Rand, Kevin J. Gonzalez, Christopher E. Reimann, Scot t C. Virgil, Brian M. Stoltz
Summary: Strempeliopidine, a member of the monoterpenoid bisindole alkaloid family, can modulate protein-protein interactions in human cancer cells. Our synthesis involved the installation of all-carbon quaternary centers using palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative asymmetric allylic alkylations. The final synthetic sequence used diastereoselective Petasis borono-Mannich reaction to connect eburnamine to a trifluoroborate aspidospermidine derivative. These convergent approaches supported the reassignment of the absolute configuration of strempeliopidine.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Organic
Liangliang Song, Zhenwei Lv, Kui Zhang, Yile Wu, Erik V. Van der Eycken, Lingchao Cai
Summary: This review outlines recent advances in the asymmetric total synthesis of camptothecin, providing concise and scalable approaches for the academic community and pharmaceutical industry.
ASIAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2022)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Brandon C. Derstine, Alina J. Cook, James D. Collings, Joseph Gair, Josep Sauri, Eugene E. Kwan, Noah Z. Burns
Summary: In this study, we report the first total synthesis and full stereochemical assignment of (+)-discorhabdin V. The synthesis was achieved through a highly convergent strategy enabled by scalable access to the two key components. Our work lays the foundation for future biological evaluation of nitrogen-bridged discorhabdins.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2023)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yuan Jin, Kensuke Orihara, Fumiki Kawagishi, Tatsuya Toma, Tohru Fukuyama, Satoshi Yokoshima
Summary: The total synthesis of Haliclonin A was achieved through a series of reactions including Birch reduction/alkylation, ring-closing metathesis, intramolecular cyclopropanation, and stereoselective 1,4-addition, leading to the formation of the desired compound.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2021)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Atsushi Nakayama, Tenta Nakamura, Toshihiro Zaima, Saho Fujimoto, Sangita Karanjit, Kosuke Namba
Summary: The concise total synthesis of tronocarpine, a chippiine-type indole alkaloid, was achieved through a one-pot construction of a pentacyclic skeleton. This strategy, controlled by the stereocenter at the C14 position, can be used to synthesize other chippiine-type alkaloids with azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane skeletons.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2021)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Minami Odagi, Taisei Matoba, Keisuke Hosoya, Kazuo Nagasawa
Summary: The first enantioselective total syntheses of hasubanan alkaloid (-)-metaphanine and norhasubanan alkaloid (+)-stephadiamine have been reported. These syntheses involve diastereoselective oxidative phenolic coupling reaction and subsequent regioselective intramolecular aza-Michael reaction to efficiently construct the hasubanan skeleton with a quaternary stereogenic center at C13. Furthermore, based on a hypothesis regarding the biosynthetic pathway of (+)-stephadiamine, it was found that (-)-metaphanine can easily be converted to (+)-stephadiamine via an aza-benzilic acid type rearrangement reaction.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Organic
Duarte B. Clemente, Jaime A. S. Coelho
Summary: This review summarizes the synthetic strategies developed by several research groups in Portugal for the total synthesis of bioactive natural products, including alkaloids, cyclitols, fatty alcohols, phenylpropanoic acids, gamma-butyrolactones, xanthones, and nucleosides.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2023)
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Li-Xuan Li, Long Min, Tian-Bing Yao, Shu-Xiao Ji, Chuang Qiao, Pei-Lin Tian, Jianwei Sun, Chuang-Chuang Li
Summary: The first total synthesis of daphgraciline, a member of Daphniphyllum yuzurine-type alkaloids, has been achieved. The unique structure of the yuzurine-type subfamily was efficiently assembled using a novel method, and the complex skeleton and key moiety were successfully constructed. This study provides a foundation for the further synthesis of enantioenriched daphgraciline with high stereochemistry.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Fatih Sirindil, Jean-Marc Weibel, Patrick Pale, Aurelien Blanc
Summary: This review describes the known total and formal syntheses of the members of the rhazinilam family, which have unique structures and taxol-like antimitotic activities.
NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS
(2022)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Caroline Dorsch, Christoph Schneider
Summary: We describe a catalytic asymmetric cyclization of 1-aryl terpenols to produce enantiomerically enriched Delta(9)-cis-tetrahydrocannabinoid scaffolds in a one-step process. Powerful chiral catalysts, strongly acidic imidodiphosphorimidates (IDPis), were identified to give the products in good yields and excellent enantioselectivity. After MOM-deprotection, some naturally occurring cannabimimetics such as (-)-cis-Delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol and (-)-perrottetinene, as well as some unnatural analogues, were accessible through a simple 3-step biomimetic sequence.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2023)
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Chemistry, Medicinal
James McNulty, Leonardo D'Aiuto, Yun Zhi, Lora McClain, Carlos Zeieda-Velazquez, Spencer Ler, Hilary A. Jenkins, Michael B. Yee, Paolo Piazza, Robert H. Yolken, Paul R. Kinchington, Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar
ACS MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
(2016)
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Chemistry, Medicinal
Matthaeus Getlik, David Smil, Carlos Zepeda-Velazquez, Yuri Bolshan, Gennady Poda, Hong Wu, Aiping Dong, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, Richard Marcellus, Guillermo Senisterra, Ludmila Dombrovski, Taraneh Hajian, Taira Kiyota, Matthieu Schapira, Cheryl H. Arrowsmith, Peter J. Brown, Masoud Vedadi, Rima Al-awar
JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
(2016)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
James McNulty, Carlos Zepeda-Velazquez, David McLeod
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sebastian Scheer, Suzanne Ackloo, Tiago S. Medina, Matthieu Schapira, Fengling Li, Jennifer A. Ward, Andrew M. Lewis, Jeffrey P. Northrop, Paul L. Richardson, H. Umit Kaniskan, Yudao Shen, Jing Liu, David Smil, David McLeod, Carlos A. Zepeda-Velazquez, Minkui Luo, Jian Jin, Dalia Barsyte-Lovejoy, Kilian V. M. Huber, Daniel D. De Carvalho, Masoud Vedadi, Colby Zaph, Peter J. Brown, Cheryl H. Arrowsmith
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2019)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Leonardo D'Aiuto, James McNulty, Caroll Hartline, Matthew Demers, Raj Kalkeri, Joel Wood, Lora McClain, Ansuman Chattopadhyay, Yun Zhi, Jennifer Naciri, Adam Smith, Robert Yolken, Kodavali Chowdari, Carlos Zepeda-Velazquez, Chanti Babu Dokuburra, Ernesto Marques, Roger Ptak, Paul Kinchington, Simon Watkins, Mark Prichard, David Bloom, Vishwajit Nimgaonkar
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2018)
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Chemistry, Medicinal
Deeba Ensan, David Smil, Carlos A. Zepeda-Velazquez, Dimitrios Panagopoulos, Jong Fu Wong, Eleanor P. Williams, Roslin Adamson, Alex N. Bullock, Taira Kiyota, Ahmed Aman, Owen G. Roberts, Aled M. Edwards, Jeff A. O'Meara, Methvin B. Isaac, Rima Al-awar
JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Magdalena M. Szewczyk, Yoshinori Ishikawa, Shawna Organ, Nozomu Sakai, Fengling Li, Levon Halabelian, Suzanne Ackloo, Amber L. Couzens, Mohammad Eram, David Dilworth, Hideto Fukushi, Rachel Harding, Carlo C. dela Sena, Tsukasa Sugo, Kozo Hayashi, David McLeod, Carlos Zepeda, Ahmed Aman, Maria Sanchez-Osuna, Eric Bonneil, Shinji Takagi, Rima Al-Awar, Mike Tyers, Stephane Richard, Masayuki Takizawa, Anne-Claude Gingras, Cheryl H. Arrowsmith, Masoud Vedadi, Peter J. Brown, Hiroshi Nara, Dalia Barsyte-Lovejoy
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2020)
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Chemistry, Medicinal
Yudao Shen, Fengling Li, Magdalena M. Szewczyk, Levon Halabelian, Irene Chau, Mohammad S. Eram, Carlo Dela Sena, Kwang-Su Park, Fanye Meng, He Chen, Hong Zeng, Aiping Dong, Hong Wu, Viacheslav V. Trush, David McLeod, Carlos A. Zepeda-Velazquez, Robert M. Campbell, Mary M. Mader, Brian M. Watson, Matthieu Schapira, Cheryl H. Arrowsmith, Rima Al-Awar, Dalia Barsyte-Lovejoy, H. Umit Kaniskan, Peter J. Brown, Masoud Vedadi, Jian Jin
Summary: (R)-2 is a potent and highly selective inhibitor of PRMT6, binding to an induced allosteric pocket. It shows outstanding selectivity for PRMT6 over other methyltransferases and can be used as a valuable tool for further investigation of PRMT6 functions in health and disease.
JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Medicinal
Mandeep K. Mann, Carlos A. Zepeda-Velazquez, Hector Gonzalez-Alvarez, Aiping Dong, Taira Kiyota, Ahmed M. Aman, Peter Loppnau, Yanjun Li, Brian Wilson, Cheryl H. Arrowsmith, Rima Al-Awar, Rachel J. Harding, Matthieu Schapira
Summary: A chemical probe targeting USP5 has been developed and shown to competitively inhibit the enzyme's catalytic activity by occupying the C-terminal ubiquitin-binding site. Compound 64 has high binding affinity to USP5 and selectivity over other proteins, providing a potential tool for elucidating the function of USP5 in cells.
JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Correction
Chemistry, Medicinal
Mandeep K. Mann, Carlos A. Zepeda-Velazquez, Hector Gonzalez-Alvarez, Aiping Dong, Taira Kiyota, Ahmed M. Aman, Peter Loppnau, Yanjun Li, Brian Wilson, Cheryl H. Arrowsmith, Rima Al-Awar, Rachel J. Harding, Matthieu Schapira
JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
(2022)