scholarly journals Recent Chemical Methodology Advances in the Total Synthesis of Meroterpenoids

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-267
Author(s):  
Jan Petrovčič ◽  
Chad Nicholas Ungarean ◽  
David Sarlah
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Natural Products ◽  
Total Synthesis ◽  
Feature Article ◽  
Total Syntheses ◽  
Synthetic Organic Chemistry ◽  
Synthetic Studies

Heterogeneity of meroterpenoids arising from their dual biosynthetic origins is constantly provoking synthetic chemists to utilize their ingenuity and revise their retrosynthetic logic. By studying recent publications on meroterpenoid synthesis,tremendous advances in the field of synthetic organic chemistry can be witnessed. This feature article covers some of the most intriguing total syntheses and synthetic studies towards the meroterpenoid class of natural products from the last five years.

Synthetic studies on heterocyclic natural products

2014 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco A. Ciufolini
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Natural Products ◽  
Synthetic Organic Chemistry ◽  
Thiopeptide Antibiotics ◽  
Erythrina Alkaloids ◽  
Synthetic Studies

This paper highlights ongoing efforts toward Erythrina alkaloids, himandrine, tetrodotoxin, and thiopeptide antibiotics such as nosiheptide and describes representative spinoffs in biomedicine that emanated from the author’s research in synthetic organic chemistry.

Advances in catalytic and protecting-group-free total synthesis of natural products: a recent update

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (61) ◽  
pp. 8569-8590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney A. Fernandes ◽  
Praveen Kumar ◽  
Priyanka Choudhary
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
Total Synthesis ◽  
Protecting Group ◽  
Feature Article ◽  
Total Syntheses

This feature article highlights the recently achieved efficient total syntheses of many natural products based on catalytic steps and protecting-group-free strategies, leading to overall economy and efficiency in synthesis.

Strategies for the synthesis of furo-pyranones and their application in the total synthesis of related natural products

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sagar Sudam Thorat ◽  
Ravindar Kontham
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Molecular Structure ◽  
Natural Products ◽  
Total Synthesis ◽  
Small Molecules ◽  
Synthetic Organic Chemistry

The furo-pyranone framework is widely present in the molecular structure of various biologically potent natural products and un-natural small molecules, and it represents a valuable target in synthetic organic chemistry...

Total synthesis: the structural confirmation of natural products

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (27) ◽  
pp. 3307-3322
Author(s):  
Debobrata Paul ◽  
Ashis Kundu ◽  
Sanu Saha ◽  
Rajib Kumar Goswami
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
Total Synthesis ◽  
Feature Article

This feature article highlights total synthesis as one of the reliable tools for the structural confirmation of natural products.

Total synthesis of the potent antifungal agents bengazole C and E

2009 ◽  
Vol 74 (6) ◽  
pp. 887-900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Álvaro Enríquez-García ◽  
Steven V. Ley
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
Antifungal Activity ◽  
Total Synthesis ◽  
Marine Natural Products ◽  
Antifungal Agents ◽  
Nitrile Oxide ◽  
Total Syntheses ◽  
Unique Structure

The bengazoles are marine natural products with unique structure, containing two oxazole rings flanking a single carbon. They show very potent antifungal activity. The total syntheses of bengazole C and E are described following a convergent route which involves diastereoselective cycloaddition of an appropriately substituted nitrile oxide with a butane-1,2-diacetal-protected alkenediol as the key step.

Aryne-based strategy in the total synthesis of naturally occurring polycyclic compounds

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (21) ◽  
pp. 8030-8056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Takikawa ◽  
Arata Nishii ◽  
Takahiro Sakai ◽  
Keisuke Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
Total Synthesis ◽  
Polycyclic Compounds ◽  
Total Syntheses ◽  
Naturally Occurring

This review has outlined the strategies and tactics of using arynes in the total syntheses of polycyclic natural products.

scholarly journals Contiguous Quaternary Carbons: A Selection of Total Syntheses

Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (17) ◽  
pp. 3841
Author(s):  
Alina Eggert ◽  
Christoph Etling ◽  
Dennis Lübken ◽  
Marius Saxarra ◽  
Markus Kalesse
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
Total Synthesis ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Total Syntheses ◽  
The Status ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Quaternary Carbons

Contiguous quaternary carbons in terpene natural products remain a major challenge in total synthesis. Synthetic strategies to overcome this challenge will be a pivotal prerequisite to the medicinal application of natural products and their analogs or derivatives. In this review, we cover syntheses of natural products that exhibit a dense assembly of quaternary carbons and whose syntheses were uncompleted until recently. While discussing their syntheses, we not only cover the most recent total syntheses but also provide an update on the status quo of modern syntheses of complex natural products. Herein, we review (±)-canataxpropellane, (+)-waihoensene, (–)-illisimonin A and (±)-11-O-debenzoyltashironin as prominent examples of natural products bearing contiguous quaternary carbons.

Construction of sulfur-containing moieties in the total synthesis of natural products

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nengzhong Wang ◽  
Puli Saidhareddy ◽  
Xuefeng Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Natural Products ◽  
Total Synthesis ◽  
Total Syntheses ◽  
Sulfur Containing

This review surveys the total syntheses of sulfur-containing natural products where sulfur atoms are introduced with different sulfurization agents to construct related sulfur-containing moieties.

scholarly journals Recent applications of imines as key intermediates in the synthesis of alkaloids and novel nitrogen heterocycles

2009 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen F. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Natural Products ◽  
Multicomponent Reactions ◽  
Nitrogen Heterocycles ◽  
Biologically Active ◽  
Total Syntheses ◽  
Biological Interest ◽  
Cascade Processes ◽  
Novel Applications ◽  
Active Natural

One of the major challenges in contemporary synthetic organic chemistry is the design and development of new tactics and strategies and their application to concise and efficient syntheses of biologically active natural products. Strategies that utilize reactions that enable the rapid assembly of the skeletal framework of such targets are thus especially attractive. In this context, we have developed novel applications of imine chemistry in Mannich and related reactions, cascade processes, and multicomponent reactions (MCRs) to rapidly assemble structural subunits common to diverse families of alkaloids. The practical utility of these chemistries is evidenced by their use in the execution of facile total syntheses of (±)-epilupinine (1), (±)-tashiromine (2), (-)-epimyrtine (3), and (±)-roelactamine (4) as well as other nitrogen heterocycles of potential biological interest.

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