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SUBMITTER: Panarese JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2783990 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organic letters 20091101 21
An enantioselective formal total synthesis of the cytotoxic macrolide (+)-aspergillide C has been accomplished from (S)-(-)-glyceraldehyde acetonide and the Danishefsky-Kitahara diene. Strategic transformations include a hetero Diels-Alder reaction, Ferrier-type addition, and palladium-catalyzed oxidative lactonization to set key stereocenters within the dihydropyran core, followed by fragment coupling via (E)-selective Julia-Kocienski olefination. ...[more]