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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Shareef AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3377182 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chemical science 20111206 3
A strategy for regiochemical reversal of reductive macrocyclizations of aldehydes and terminal alkynes has been developed. Using an advanced synthetic intermediate directed towards the methymycin/neomethymycin class of macrolides, selective endocyclization provides the natural twelve-membered ring series, whereas ligand alteration enables selective exocyclization to provide access to the unnatural eleven-membered ring series. The twelve-membered ring adduct was converted to 10-deoxymethynolide, ...[more]