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About: Total synthesis is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 25578 publications have been published within this topic receiving 489319 citations.


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15 May 2014-Nature
TL;DR: The chemical connections that have been realized as a result of the syntheses of citrinalin and cyclopiamine support the existence of a common bicyclo-containing biogenetic precursor to these compounds, as has been proposed previously.
Abstract: Many natural products that contain basic nitrogen atoms—for example alkaloids like morphine and quinine—have the potential to treat a broad range of human diseases. However, the presence of a nitrogen atom in a target molecule can complicate its chemical synthesis because of the basicity of nitrogen atoms and their susceptibility to oxidation. Obtaining such compounds by chemical synthesis can be further complicated by the presence of multiple nitrogen atoms, but it can be done by the selective introduction and removal of functional groups that mitigate basicity. Here we use such a strategy to complete the chemical syntheses of citrinalin B and cyclopiamine B. The chemical connections that have been realized as a result of these syntheses, in addition to the isolation of both 17-hydroxycitrinalin B and citrinalin C (which contains a bicyclo[2.2.2]diazaoctane structural unit) through carbon-13 feeding studies, support the existence of a common bicyclo[2.2.2]diazaoctane-containing biogenetic precursor to these compounds, as has been proposed previously. Natural products citrinalin B and cyclopiamine B, which contain basic nitrogen atoms that are susceptible to oxidation during synthesis, can be synthesized by the selective introduction and removal of functional groups. This paper reports the first syntheses of the natural products citrinalin B and cyclopiamine B. And as a by-product of this work, the authors propose a revision of the structure initially assigned to citrinalin B. The presence of nitrogen atoms in a target molecule can complicate its synthesis because of nitrogen's basicity and susceptibility to oxidation. This can be circumvented by the selective introduction and removal of functional groups that mitigate basicity. The prenylated indole alkaloids citrinalin B and cyclopiamine B were produced using a refinement of the technique, opening up a class of compounds that includes therapeutics such as quinine and morphine to synthetic chemistry.

119 citations

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TL;DR: The direct asym.
Abstract: The direct asym. α-arylation of prochiral ketones has been effected using chiral lithium amide bases and diaryl iodonium salts. The methodol. has been employed in a short total synthesis of the alk ...

119 citations

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TL;DR: A convergent enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-pinnatoxin A is described, which capitalizes on the highly diastereoselectives Ireland-Claisen rearrangement of an acyclic alpha-branched allylic ester to set the quaternary stereogenic center at the core of the spiroimine ring system along with the adjacent tertiary stereocenter.
Abstract: A convergent enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-pinnatoxin A is described. The synthesis capitalizes on the highly diastereoselective Ireland−Claisen rearrangement of an acyclic alpha-branched allylic ester to set the quaternary stereogenic center at the core of the spiroimine ring system along with the adjacent tertiary stereocenter. The all-carbon macrocyclic ring system was formed by ring-closing metathesis.

118 citations


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2021479
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2018551