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SUBMITTER: Bigi MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3622267 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bigi Marinus A MA Liu Peng P Zou Lufeng L Houk K N KN White M Christina MC
Synlett : accounts and rapid communications in synthetic organic chemistry 20121201 19
The tricalysiolides are a recently isolated class of diterpene natural products featuring the carbon backbone of the well-known coffee extract, cafestol. Herein we validate the use of our non-heme iron complex, Fe(PDP), as an oxidative tailoring enzyme mimic to test the proposal that this class of natural products derives from cafestol via cytochrome P-450-mediated furan oxidation. Thereafter, as predicted by computational analysis, C-H oxidation derivatization studies provided a novel 2° alcoho ...[more]