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SUBMITTER: Farney EP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5988231 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Farney Elliot P EP Feng Sean S SS Schäfers Felix F Reisman Sarah E SE
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20180117 4
An 18-step synthesis of the antibiotic (+)-pleuromutilin is disclosed. The key steps of the synthesis include a highly stereoselective SmI<sub>2</sub>-mediated cyclization to establish the eight-membered ring and a stereospecific transannular [1,5]-hydrogen atom transfer to set the C10 stereocenter. This strategy was also used to prepare (+)-12-epi-pleuromutilin. The chemistry described here will enable efforts to prepare new mutilin antibiotics. ...[more]