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Novel methodology towards the total synthesis of Pseudopterogorgia metabolites

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posted on 2013-10-28, 10:08 authored by Paul O'Hora
In 1982, routine screening of the Pseudopterogorgia elizabethae stirred the scientific community by showing the presence of cytotoxic metabolites with antimicrobial activity. Since this discovery a vast amount of research has been conducted in synthesising metabolites of the soft coral. Herein we report the developments towards the synthesis of two metabolites (+)-Erogorgiaene and (+)-Elisabethadione utilising three key reactions in setting up the molecules three chiral centres. The use of asymmetric allylation, oxy-Cope rearrangement and cationic cyclisation was utilised to set up the desired stereocentres from a starting cinnamyl aldehyde. Natural elisabethadione was synthesised in a racemic form as a 2:1 mixture of diastereoisomers at the C-13 stereocentre.

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Loughborough University

History

School

  • Science

Department

  • Chemistry

Publisher

© Paul O'Hora

Publication date

2013

Notes

A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.

Language

  • en