Asymmetric total synthesis of the epoxykinamycin FL-120ýýýB'.
Asymmetric total synthesis of the epoxykinamycin FL-120ýýýB'.
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环氧激酶FL-120×××B的不对称全合成。
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10.1002/anie.201104504
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2011
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PorcoJr,JohnA
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Scully,StephenS;PorcoJr,JohnA
Diazobenzofluorene natural products are a family of structurally complex molecules with a tetracyclic (ABCD) framework bearing a diazo moiety, a functionality rarely found in nature (Scheme 1).[1] Members of this family differ in the levels of functionalization of the cyclohexene moiety (D ring). Kinamycin C (1),[2] which is biosynthetically [3] derived from the epoxide-containing ketoanhydrokinamycin (2),[4] contains a D ring with four contiguous stereocenters. Other epoxykinamycins include FL-120B (3) and the closely related FL-120B’(4).[5] Monomeric diazobenzofluorenes have been shown to exhibit antitumor properties.[2, 6] Numerous studies have suggested that these biological activities may result from damage to DNA mediated by bioreductive pathways, thus leading to loss of the diazo functional group.[6b, 7] This unique family of natural products gained significant attention upon isolation of the dimeric diazobenzofluorenes lomaiviticins A (5) and B (6) by He et al. in 2001.[8] Demonstrated to be DNA-damaging agents, the lomaiviticins were found to display antibiotic acitivity against Gram-positive bacteria and potent cytotoxicity in several cancer cell lines. The C2-symmetric lomaiviticins may originate from the C2ÀC2’linkage of precursors that closely resemble the monomeric kinamycins. Since 2006, numerous research groups have reported total syntheses of monomeric diazobenzofluorene natural products [9] as well as studies towards the dimeric lomaiviticins.[10] Recently, Herzon et al. reported a remarkable 11-step synthesis of the lomaiviticin aglycon.[11] Their dimerization approach utilizes an oxidative homocoupling of a silyl enol ether derived from a protected monomer, which resembles 7 (Scheme 2a). Given the abundance of diazobenzofluorene natural products bearing an epoxide or oxygenated functionality at the C2-position, we believe that a biosynthetic precursor to the lomaiviticins may also be depicted by the proposed monomer 8 (Scheme 2 b). This dimerization process may result from a reductive epoxide-opening [12] event leading to a pivotal carbon–carbon bond formation.[13] In this regard, we report the total synthesis of FL-120B’(4) and development of methods to prepare diazobenzofluorenes with intact epoxides; these methods may also allow future access to the lomaiviticins and related compounds.