Naphthol radical couplings determine structural features and enantiomeric excess of dalesconols in Daldinia eschscholzii
Naphthol radical couplings determine structural features and enantiomeric excess of dalesconols in Daldinia eschscholzii
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萘酚自由基偶联决定 Daldinia eschscholzii 中 dalesconol 的结构特征和对映体过量
DOI:
10.1038/ncomms2031
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发表时间:
2012-09-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Tan, Ren Xiang
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作者:
Fang, Wei;Ji, Shen;Tan, Ren Xiang
Understanding how simple molecules are pieced together in organisms may aid biotechnological manipulation and synthetic approaches to complex natural products. The mantis-associated fungus Daldinia eschscholzii IFB-TL01 produces the unusually structured immunosuppressants (±)-dalesconols A and B, along with their congener (±)-dalesconol C, with the (-)-enantiomers in excess. Here we report that these structural and stereochemical peculiarities of dalesconols A-C are a result of promiscuous and atropselective couplings of radicals derived from 1,3,6,8-tetrahydroxynaphthalene, 1,3,8-trihydroxynaphthalene and 1,8-dihydroxynaphthalene. The observed (-)-enantiomeric excess is found to depend on the dominance of particular conformers of naphthol dimer intermediates, which are ligands of laccase.