Tobias Hintermann

Bio: Tobias Hintermann is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Teicoplanin & Folding (chemistry). The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 4 publications receiving 242 citations.

β‐Peptides: Twisting and Turning

Abstract: With 71 refs., this review presents various aspects of beta-peptides (oligomers of beta-amino acids): synthesis, structure detn. by NMR and CD, thermal stability properties, helical and beta-pleated secondary structures, peptide folding, biol. and pharmacokinetic activities.

Total synthesis of teicoplanin aglycon.

Abstract: Teicoplanin ( 1),1 isolated in 1978 fromActinoplanes teichomyceticus , is a member of a large family of glycopeptide antibiotics which includes vancomycin. 2 Teicoplanin and vancomycin are the only two representatives of this family that are used clinically for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusinfections and are considered to be the antibiotics of last resort against this pathogen. 3 The emergence of bacterial strains resistant to treatment by these glycopeptides, 4 and the challenging structural features of these natural products, have prompted extensive investigations into the total syntheses of both vancomycin5 and teicoplanin ( 1).6 In this Communication, we report the total synthesis of teicoplanin aglycon ( 2) from the peptidic subunitsI andII (Scheme 1). One of the major goals in the development of this synthesis has been to incorporate each of the amino acid subunits in their correct oxidation states. This objective has now been met for the first time. The teicoplanin and vancomycin aglycons share a common bicyclic tetrapeptide subunit I that includes amino acids 4-7 (Scheme 1). With the exception of ring-6 substitution, which varies in the level of chlorination, this subunit is structurally invariant throughout the family of antibiotics. The additional complexity inherent in the teicoplanin aglycon is derived from the replacement of the position-3 asparagine and position-1 leucine residues in the vancomycin aglycon with two additional racemization-prone arylglycine residues. 7 Furthermore, these two amino acid residues are cross-linked to form a new 14-membered

Folding of β- and γ-peptides. The influence of substitution patterns on the formation of hydrogen bonds

Abstract: A symposium report. The thermal stability of beta-peptides is discussed and a mechanism for unfolding and folding is proposed. beta-Peptide helixes of only seven residues are stable up to 80 Deg and above in CD3OH.

Copper-mediated coupling reactions and their applications in natural products and designed biomolecules synthesis.

Abstract: 6.4. Polyynes 3123 6.5. Using R-Hydroxy Stannanes 3124 6.6. Using the Hurtley Reaction 3124 6.7. Using a Methylenation Reaction 3125 7. Conclusions and Future Prospects 3125 8. Uncommon Abbreviations 3125 9. Acknowledgments 3125 10. Note Added in Proof 3125 11. References 3126 * Authorstowhomcorrespondenceshouldbeaddressed(evano@chimie.uvsq.fr, nicolas.blanchard@uha.fr). † Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines. ‡ Université de Haute-Alsace. Chem. Rev. 2008, 108, 3054–3131 3054

Aerobic Copper-Catalyzed Organic Reactions

Abstract: The chemistry of copper is extremely rich because it can easily access Cu0, CuI, CuII, and CuIII oxidation states allowing it to act through one-electron or two-electron processes. As a result, both radical pathways and powerful two-electron bond forming pathways via organmetallic intermediates, similar to those of palladium, can occur. In addition, the different oxidation states of copper associate well with a large number of different functional groups via Lewis acid interactions or π-coordination. In total, these feature confer a remarkably broad range of activities allowing copper to catalyze the oxidation and oxidative union of many substrates. Oxygen is a highly atom economical, environmentally benign, and abundant oxidant, which makes it ideal in many ways.1 The high activation energies in the reactions of oxygen require that catalysts be employed.2 In combination with molecular oxygen, the chemistry of copper catalysis increases exponentially since oxygen can act as either a sink for electrons (oxidase activity) and/or as a source of oxygen atoms that are incorporated into the product (oxygenase activity). The oxidation of copper with oxygen is a facile process allowing catalytic turnover in net oxidative processes and ready access to the higher CuIII oxidation state, which enables a range of powerful transformations including two-electron reductive elimination to CuI. Molecular oxygen is also not hampered by toxic byproducts, being either reduced to water, occasionally via H2O2 (oxidase activity) or incorporated into the target structure with high atom economy (oxygenase activity). Such oxidations using oxygen or air (21% oxygen) have been employed safely in numerous commodity chemical continuous and batch processes.3 However, batch reactors employing volatile hydrocarbon solvents require that oxygen concentrations be kept low in the head space (typically <5–11%) to avoid flammable mixtures, which can limit the oxygen concentration in the reaction mixture.4,5,6 A number of alternate approaches have been developed allowing oxidation chemistry to be used safely across a broader array of conditions. For example, use of carbon dioxide instead of nitrogen as a diluent leads to reduced flammability.5 Alternately, water can be added to moderate the flammability allowing even pure oxygen to be employed.6 New reactor designs also allow pure oxygen to be used instead of diluted oxygen by maintaining gas bubbles in the solvent, which greatly improves reaction rates and prevents the build up of higher concentrations of oxygen in the head space.4a,7 Supercritical carbon dioxide has been found to be advantageous as a solvent due its chemical inertness towards oxidizing agents and its complete miscibility with oxygen or air over a wide range of temperatures.8 An number of flow technologies9 including flow reactors,10 capillary flow reactors,11 microchannel/microstructure structure reactors,12 and membrane reactors13 limit the amount of or afford separation of hydrocarbon/oxygen vapor phase thereby reducing the potential for explosions. Enzymatic oxidizing systems based upon copper that exploit the many advantages and unique aspects of copper as a catalyst and oxygen as an oxidant as described in the preceding paragraphs are well known. They represent a powerful set of catalysts able to direct beautiful redox chemistry in a highly site-selective and stereoselective manner on simple as well as highly functionalized molecules. This ability has inspired organic chemists to discover small molecule catalysts that can emulate such processes. In addition, copper has been recognized as a powerful catalyst in several industrial processes (e.g. phenol polymerization, Glaser-Hay alkyne coupling) stimulating the study of the fundamental reaction steps and the organometallic copper intermediates. These studies have inspiried the development of nonenzymatic copper catalysts. For these reasons, the study of copper catalysis using molecular oxygen has undergone explosive growth, from 30 citations per year in the 1980s to over 300 citations per year in the 2000s. A number of elegant reviews on the subject of catalytic copper oxidation chemistry have appeared. Most recently, reviews provide selected coverage of copper catalysts14 or a discussion of their use in the aerobic functionalization of C–H bonds.15 Other recent reviews cover copper and other metal catalysts with a range of oxidants, including oxygen, but several reaction types are not covered.16 Several other works provide a valuable overview of earlier efforts in the field.17 This review comprehensively covers copper catalyzed oxidation chemistry using oxygen as the oxidant up through 2011. Stoichiometric reactions with copper are discussed, as necessary, to put the development of the catalytic processes in context. Mixed metal systems utilizing copper, such as palladium catalyzed Wacker processes, are not included here. Decomposition reactions involving copper/oxygen and model systems of copper enzymes are not discussed exhaustively. To facilitate analysis of the reactions under discussion, the current mechanistic hypothesis is provided for each reaction. As our understanding of the basic chemical steps involving copper improve, it is expected that many of these mechanisms will evolve accordingly.

Atroposelective total synthesis of axially chiral biaryl natural products.

Abstract: Intellectual curiosity has always been one of the major driving forces leading to new advances in chemistry. At the onset of the 20th century, the fact that biaryls could be optically active even if lacking asymmetrically substituted carbon atoms arose interest, hinting at a novel type of stereomerism. It took quite a while (and some bizarre explanations)1 until in 1922 Christie and Kenner2 first correctly recognized that the phenomenon was the consequence of a hindered rotation about the aryl-aryl single bondshence termed atropisomerism by Kuhn. Still, no particular attention was initially paid to this class of stereoisomers until enantiomerically pure biaryls, such as BINAP (1),3 were found to be excellent ligands in asymmetric catalysis and until the chiral biaryl unit was recognized as the decisive structural element of many natural products (Figure 1).4,5 With the modern screening techniques and the bioassayguided search for novel compounds, the number of isolated axially chiral natural biaryls is steadily increasing.4 This class of secondary metabolites is characterized by a broad structural diversity, reaching from relatively simple molecules like the C2-symmetric biphenyl 2, which solely contains the element of axial chirality,6 to more complex compounds, like, e.g., the dimeric naphthylisoquinoline alkaloids michellamine A [(P,P)-3] and its axial epimer (i.e., its atropodiastereomer), michellamine B [(P,M)-3],7,8 which possess even three biaryl axes, of which the two outer ones are stereogenic, while * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bringmann@ chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de; breuning@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de. † These authors contributed equally to this work. ‡ Present address: Institute of Organic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen, Landoltweg 1, 52074 Aachen, Germany. § Present address: Kekulé Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bonn, Gerhard-Domagk Str. 1, 53121 Bonn, Germany. Gerhard Bringmann was born in 1951 and studied chemistry in Gie en and Münster, Germany. After his Ph.D. with Prof. B. Franck in 1978 and postdoctoral studies with Prof. Sir D. H. R. Barton in Gif-sur-Yvette (France), he passed his habilitation at the University of Münster in 1984. In 1986, he received offers for full professorships of Organic Chemistry at the Universities of Vienna and Würzburg, of which he accepted the latter in 1987. In 1998, he was offered the position of director at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle, which he declined. His research interests focus on the field of analytical, synthetic, and computational natural product chemistry, i.e., on axially chiral biaryls. He received several prizes and awards, among them the Otto-Klung Award in chemistry (1988), the Prize for Good Teaching of the Free State of Bavaria (1999), the Adolf-Windaus Medal (2006), the Honorary Doctorate of the University of Kinshasa (2006), the Paul-J.-Scheuer Award (2007), and the Honorary Guest Professorship of Peking University (2008). Chem. Rev. 2011, 111, 563–639 563

Diamine ligands in copper -catalyzed reactions

Abstract: The utility of copper-mediated cross-coupling reactions has been significantly increased by the development of mild reaction conditions and the ability to employ catalytic amounts of copper. The use of diamine-based ligands has been important in these advances and in this review we discuss these systems, including the choice of reaction conditions and applications in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, natural products and designed materials.

Selected Copper-Based Reactions for C-N, C-O, C-S and C-C Bond Formation

Abstract: Metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions belong to the most important transformations in organic synthesis Copper catalysis has received great attention owing to the low toxicity and low cost of copper However, traditional Ullmann-type couplings suffer from limited substrate scopes and harsh reaction conditions The introduction of several bidentate ligands, such as amino acids, diamines, 1,3-diketones, and oxalic diamides, over the past two decades has totally changed this situation as these ligands enable the copper-catalyzed coupling of aryl halides and nucleophiles at both low reaction temperatures and catalyst loadings The reaction scope has also been greatly expanded, rendering this copper-based cross-coupling attractive for both academia and industry In this Review, we have summarized the latest progress in the development of useful reaction conditions for the coupling of (hetero)aryl halides with different nucleophiles Additionally, recent advances in copper-catalyzed coupling reactions with aryl boronates and the copper-based trifluoromethylation of aromatic electrophiles will be discussed