Spirocycloisomerization of tethered alkylidene glycocyamidines: Synthesis of a base template common to the Palau'amine family of alkaloids
Spirocycloisomerization of tethered alkylidene glycocyamidines: Synthesis of a base template common to the Palau'amine family of alkaloids
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200462069
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发表时间:
2005-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Harran, PG
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作者:
Garrido-Hemandez, H;Nakadai, M;Harran, PG
In 1993 Scheuer, Kinnel, and co-workers described the structural elucidation of palau amine (1), an antimicrobial principle isolated from extracts of the marine sponge Stylotella aurantium.[1] This substance inhibits both bacterial and fungal growth. It has the additional ability to block stimulated T-cell proliferation in vitro, yet remains relatively innocuous toward resting lymphocytes. The mechanism (s) underlying this immunosuppressive property is not known. As a step toward the preparation of molecules useful for its exploration, we describe herein a new spirocyclization process—one with potential to support a synthesis of palauamine as well as its constitutional relatives axinellamine (2)[2] and massadine (3)[3].Polycyclic bisguanidines 1–3 are members of a larger alkaloid family whose precise biosynthetic origin is a subject of speculation.[1b, 4, 5] Until recently, imidazole 4 was considered likely feedstock for the group.[4a, c] New observations challenge that idea.[6] However, from the synthetic perspective,[7] casting structures 1–3 in terms of 4 remains a useful exercise. Substructure 4 can be traced twice within polycycles 1–3 (Scheme 1). In each instance, the monomers are oriented head-to-head with bonds a and b forming a common embedded cyclopentane. The relative stereochemistries of substituents that emanate from this core differ in 1–3. Such spatial variations offer a rationale for how conserved events, initiated oxidatively after or during formation of the cyclopentane ring, could diverge to the observed ring systems—those similarly constituted but alternately linked.[4a] We report herein a core substrate type prone to form bond a in a spirocyclization applicable to all three targets. Scheme 2 details how the reaction could operate in the palau amine case. This specific example parallels the general