The changing faces of halogenated marine natural products:: Total synthesis of the reported structures of elatenyne and an enyne from Laurencia majuscula
The changing faces of halogenated marine natural products:: Total synthesis of the reported structures of elatenyne and an enyne from Laurencia majuscula
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200602211
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发表时间:
2006-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Burton, Jonathan W.
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作者:
Sheldrake, Helen M.;Jamieson, Craig;Burton, Jonathan W.
The structures of complex natural products are best confirmed by independent synthesis or X-ray crystallography. Advances in NMR spectroscopy over the last 20 years have greatly improved the ease with which the structures of complex molecules are solved; however, in cases where crystallography is not possible, regio-and stereocontrolled synthesis remains the best method for structure confirmation. In many cases, determining the connectivity through heteroatoms becomes a significant challenge in structure assignment by NMR spectroscopy, especially in otherwise closely related molecules. For example, consider the two natural products (E)-dactomelyne (1) and notoryne (2).[1, 2] They both contain the same carbon and proton connectivity, and hence unambiguous structure assignment would be challenging on the basis of NMR experiments alone. The natural products 1 and2 belong to a much wider group of C15 metabolites isolated from red algae and from marine organisms that feed on Laurencia species.[3] In 1986, the dibrominated natural product elatenyne was isolated by Hall and Reiss, and was assigned the pyrano [3, 2-b] pyran structure 3 on the basis of extensive 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopic analyses.[4] More recently, the structure of a halogenated C15 natural product isolated from L. majuscula was disclosed as the pyrano [3, 2-b] pyran 4, again on the basis of extensive NMR spectroscopic analyses and by comparison with the structures 3 (reported for elatenyne) and (E)-dactomelyne (1).[5] Elatenyne and the L. majuscula enyne were attractive targets for total synthesis because of their densely functionalized pyrano [3, 2-b] pyran cores and embedded C2 symmetry.[6, 7] Herein, we report an efficient two-directional route to these halogenated secondary metabolites which rapidly established the central pyrano [3, 2-b] pyran core and culminated in the total synthesis of structures 3 and 4.[8, 9] The spectroscopic data for the synthetic pyrano [3, 2-b] pyrans 3 and 4 are inconsistent with those reported for the natural products, and we propose that both natural products are structurally related to notoryne 2 by having a core 2, 2’-bifuranyl structure.