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SUBMITTER: Velvadapu V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3170427 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of organic chemistry 20110824 18
Novel sources of antibiotics are required to address the serious problem of antibiotic resistance. Telithromycin (2) is a third-generation macrolide antibiotic prepared from erythromycin (1) and used clinically since 2004. Herein we report the details of our efforts that ultimately led to the total synthesis of (-)-4,8,10-tridesmethyl telithromycin (3) wherein methyl groups have been replaced with hydrogens. The synthesis of desmethyl macrolides has emerged as a novel strategy for preparing bioa ...[more]