The manzamine alkaloids.
The manzamine alkaloids.
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10.1016/s0099-9598(03)60004-0
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发表时间:
2003-01-01
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Kelly, Michelle
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Hu, Jin-Feng;Hamann, Mark T;Kelly, Michelle
The number of alkaloids identified from marine organisms continues to grow at an increasing rate, but few, if any, provide comparable sophistication in molecular architecture or as promising a biological significance as the manzamine class. The manzamines are a unique class of β-carboline-containing alkaloids with an unusual polycyclic system identified from marine sponges beginning in the late 1980s. The first representative of this class of alkaloids isolated by Higa’s group was identified as manzamine A (1)(Fig. 1)(1), and the relative, as well as absolute, configuration was considered unprecedented at the time. X-ray diffraction crystallographic analysis of manzamine A hydrochloride (1a), showed that apart from the β-carboline substituent, the molecule comprises a complicated array of 5-, 6-, 8-, and 13-membered rings. The piperidine and cyclohexene ring systems adopt chair and boat conformations, respectively, while the pyrrolidinium ring forms an envelope. The conformation of the 8-membered Z-olefinic ring is in an envelope-boat, with a mirror plane passing through C-32 and C-28. The two, six-membered rings of manzamine A are bridged by a chain of eight carbon atoms constituting a 13-membered macrocycle with a quadrangular conformation. The six bonds joining C-12 to C-19 of manzamine A form a “convex side” and a pseudo mirror plane transfixing the double bond and the C-36 atom (1).In recent years, the manzamines have been regarded as an intriguing group of marine alkaloids with extraordinary biological activity, and as a result these compounds have been the subject of several reviews regarding their chemistry and pharmacology (2–4). In addition, the manzamines have also provoked a great deal of interest in their unprecedented biosynthetic pathway. In 1992 Baldwin et al.(5) first proposed a plausible biogenetic pathway involving an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction for manzamines A (1) and B (2). This biogenetic scheme suggested that a macrocyclic bisdihydropyridine maybe derived from ammonia, a C3 unit, and a C10 unit. The bisdihydropyridine could then be converted through a Diels-Alder-type [4+ 2] intramolecular cycloaddition into a pentacyclic intermediate, which, in turn, would provide manzamines A and B via a tetracyclic intermediate. Manzamine C (3) could then easily be formed as a related product through a straightforward process involving four units including: tryptophan, ammonia, a C3 acrolein, and a C10 symmetrical dialdehyde (Scheme 1)(5).