Total Synthesis and Structure Revision of Diplobifuranylone B

Concise total synthesis and structural revision of (+)-pestalazine B.

A convergent synthesis of the proposed structure of (+)-pestalazine B has been achieved in 4 steps using the N-alkylation of an unprotected tryptophan diketopiperazine with a 3a-bromopyrrolidinoindoline as the key step. Although its structure was confirmed by X-ray analysis, the spectroscopic data did not match those of the natural product. The versatility of the methodology allowed the prepara...

Total synthesis and structural revision of the alkaloid incargranine B.

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Total synthesis of schizocommunin and revision of its structure.

A proposed structure for schizocommunin (Z)-1(hydroxy) and its geometric isomer (E)-1(hydroxy), which exist in a keto form, has been synthesized. However, the spectroscopic data of (Z)-1(keto) and (E)-1(keto) were not consistent with those reported for natural schizocommunin. After reinvestigating the spectral data for natural schizocommunin, we synthesized the quinazolinone derivative (Z)-2 as...

Dehydromicrosclerodermin B and Microsclerodermin J: Total Synthesis and Structural Revision

The total synthesis of dehydromicrosclerodermin B and microsclerodermin J is described. Efficient approaches to the unusual amino acids in the target molecules were developed on the basis of a Negishi coupling (for Trp-2-CO2 H) and Blaise reaction (for Pyrr). An incorrect assignment of the pyrrolidinone stereochemistry of both compounds was confirmed by synthesizing epimers of the proposed stru...

Structure and total synthesis of lysobactin (katanosin B).