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SUBMITTER: Herzon SB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5357143 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Herzon Seth B SB Lu Liang L Woo Christina M CM Gholap Shivajirao L SL
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20110131 19
Lomaiviticins A and B are complex antitumor antibiotics that were isolated from a strain of Micromonospora. A confluence of several unusual structural features renders the lomaiviticins exceedingly challenging targets for chemical synthesis. We report an 11-step, enantioselective synthetic route to lomaiviticin aglycon. Our route proceeds by late-stage, stereoselective dimerization of two equivalent monomeric intermediates, a transformation that may share parallels with the natural products' bio ...[more]