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SUBMITTER: Wright BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2638005 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wright Benjamin J D BJ Hartung John J Peng Feng F Van de Water Ryan R Liu Haibo H Tan Quen-Hui QH Chou Ting-Chao TC Danishefsky Samuel J SJ
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20081201 49
The "aglycone" of pluraflavin A (2) has been synthesized. The key features of this synthesis include a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between a nitrile oxide (cf. 14) and an olefin (22) to yield an isoxazoline followed by subsequent conversion into the gamma-pyrone of pluraflavin A. The epoxide moiety linked to the pyrone is installed prior to Diels-Alder installation of the D ring, which allows access to a number of potentially active cytotoxic intermediates en route to the final compound. The preli ...[more]