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SUBMITTER: Ghosh AK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3179852 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ghosh Arun K AK Xu Chun-Xiao CX
Organic letters 20090501 9
The total synthesis of the proposed structure of anticancer agent stereocalpin A is described. The synthesis features a diastereoselective synthesis of a 5-hydroxy-2,4-dimethyl-3-oxooctanoic acid unit with asymmetric anti- and syn-aldol reactions as the key steps. Initial cycloamidation led to complete epimerization at the C-11 stereocenter due to unique steric constraints in the 12-membered depsipeptide ring. A late-stage methylation strategy led to the synthesis of the proposed structure of st ...[more]