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SUBMITTER: Zaghouani M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6759494 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zaghouani Mehdi M Bögeholz Lena A K LAK Mercier Evan E Wintermeyer Wolfgang W Roche Stéphane P SP
Tetrahedron 20190327 24
A concise 7-step total synthesis of (±)-fumimycin in 11.6 % overall yield is reported. An acid-catalyzed intramolecular aza-Friedel-Crafts cyclization was developed to construct the benzofuranone skeleton of the natural product bearing an α,α-disubstituted amino acid moiety in a single step. Regioselective chlorination followed by a Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling rapidly enabled the preparation of a library of analogues which were evaluated against peptide deformylase for antibacterial activity. ...[more]