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SUBMITTER: Walker JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6426452 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Walker James R JR Merit Jeffrey E JE Thomas-Tran Rhiannon R Tang Doris T Y DTY Du Bois J J
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20190102 6
The bis-guanidinium toxins are a collection of natural products that display nanomolar potency against select isoforms of eukaryotic voltage-gated Na<sup>+</sup> ion channels. We describe a synthetic strategy that enables access to four of these poisons, namely 11-saxitoxinethanoic acid, C13-acetoxy saxitoxin, decarbamoyl saxitoxin, and saxitoxin. Highlights of this work include an unusual Mislow-Evans rearrangement and a late-stage Stille ketene acetal coupling. The IC<sub>50</sub> value of 11- ...[more]