Total Synthesis of (±)-Celaphanol A

Celaphanol A was a diterpene isolated from the stems of Celastrus stephanotifolius1, which have been the subject of continued and growing interest, due to the range of biological activities shown by many members of this family2. Some have been used in traditional medicine3 or as a stimulant4 from ancient times. In order to further study the relationship between the structure and biological activity of the diterpene compound and as an extension of diterpenoid synthesis in our laboratory5, 6, …     

Coupling Reaction of 4-Chloro-7-H-Pyrrolo[2,3-d]Pyrimidine with 2,3,5-Tri-O-Acetyl-β-D-Ribofuranosyl Chloride

Tubercidin (4-amino-7--D-riobofuranosyl-7-H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine) 1, an antibio-tic substance produced in the culture broth of Streptomyces tubericidus1, is an adenosine analog in which N-7 is replaced by a carbon atom. It has attracted much attention due to the biological activities for the growth inhibition of certain tumors, and many derivatives of tubercidin have been synthesized2-5.For the synthesis of tubercidin analogs, 4-chloro-7-H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine-2,3,5-tri-O-acetyl--D-r…     

Soluble Polymer-Supported Synthesis of α-Amino Acid Derivatives

Due to the central role played by α-amino acid in chemistry and biology, the development of versatile and new methodology for the synthesis of natural and unnatural α-amino acid has emerged as an important and challenging synthetic endeavour for organic chemists.[1] Among the various methodologies reported for α-amino acid synthesis, [2,3] the solid-phase organic synthesis (SPOS) has served as an important approach. [4] However, inherent prob lems on solid supports are reactive site accessibility, site-site interaction and monitoring of the reaction.     

A Facile Method for the Synthesis of 4- Acetylaminobenzo[15]crown-5

The 4-acetylaminobenzo[15]crown-5 is an important intermediate in the synthesis of crown ether cyanine dyes1, in addition, the acetylamino can easily be hydrolyzed to be amine2, to our knowledge which also is an usful intermediate3,4, The classical procedure for the synthesis of 4-acetylaminobenzo[15]crown-5 involves several steps2,5: typically nitration of the benzo[15]crown-5, followed by reduction of the introduced nitro group to form amine, and finally, acylation of the amine to give the am…     

A Facile Synthesis of Pyrrolidine Derivatives

The Amaryllidaceae alkaloids have attracted considerable attention for their interesting biological activities. [1] Many of these tyrosine derived alkaloids[2] incorporate a hexahydroindole moiety in the structural skeletons. New approaches towards the synthesis of hexahydroindole core have been a topical interest for the synthetic community.Herein we report an experimentally very simple method for the synthesis of hexahydroindole by aminocylization. Four kinds of N-substituted have been demonstrate to be effective to this cyclization. The results were summarized in Figure 1.     

Study on Fmoc Solid-phase Synthesis and Activity of Thymosin α1

Thymosin α1 (Tα1), an immunologically polypeptide, [1] is highly acidic composed of 28 amino acid residues with acetylserine as the NH2 terminus. The MW of this peptide is 3108, with pI 4.2. There are many Asp and Glu in this molecule and the complete amino acid sequence of Tα1 is Ac-Ser-Asp-Ala-Ala-Val-Asp-Thr-Ser-Ser-Glu-IleThr-Thr-Lys-Asp-Leu-Lys-Glu-Lys-Lys-Glu-Val-Val-Glu-Glu-Ala-Glu-Asn-OH. This peptide has potent biological activity and has been found to be 10～ 1000 times as active as thymosin F5. In this paper, a Tα1 has been synthe sized by a solid-phase method. Peptide synthesis was performed manually by the stepwise solid-phase method using the base-labile Fmoc group for protecting the α-amino acid. [2]     

Density functional study on enantioselective reduction of keto oxime ether with borane catalyzed by oxazaborolidine

Chiral amino alcohols have interesting biological activities and are used widely as chiral ligands in metal-mediated organic reactions[1―3]. Although many amino alcohols can be derived from the available amino acids, the asymmetric synthesis is an important method to get novel amino alcohols. Tillyer et al.[4] reported a new, highly stereoselective synthesis of cyclic (1S,2R)-cis amino alcohols A from keto oxime ethers B, via the enantioselective reduction catalyzed by oxazaborolidine C in …     

Study on Ionic Organotin Compounds Ⅲ. Synthesis of Five-Coordinated Anionic Tin(Ⅳ) Complexes and Crystal Structure of [ ( i-Pr)2NH2] [ PhSn(μ2-SCH2COO)2]

The study of ionic organotin compounds is of current attention owing to their diversified molecular structures and wide range of applications, such as biological activities[1 ～3] and as catalysts in organic synthesis. [4] Recently, we synthesized some new ionic organotin compounds by dephenylation reaction. [5] In this paper, we continued to study the reaction of mercaptoacetic acid with phenyltin trichloride in the presence of organic base. The reaction equation was as follows:     

Synthesis and Characterization of Multithiouracils

Alkylation of bases group of nucleic acid, thymine and uracil, has attracted great attention. In order to investigate the intermolecular interactions, [1,2] and the photoreactions[3,4] between bases group of nucleic acid, many studies were focused on the synthesis of bisbases in the formation of B-(CH2)n-B (B′) in which trimethylene was commonly used as linker. Thiouracil is an important derivative of nucleic acid bases, and it can interfere with the synthesis of thyroxine, especially in the treatment of hyperthyroidism and angina. However, to our knowledge, the synthesis of bisthiouracils, even trithiouracils, using flexible or rigid linkers has not been reported. Herein, we have synthesized eight thiouracil derivatives by nucleophilic reaction between thiouracil and varied bromides. All the compounds have been characterized by IR, 1H NMR and element analysis.     

Synthesis and Crystal Structure of 6—Bromo—piperonal—dimethyl—acetal

1 INTRODUCTION 6-Bromo-piperonal-dimethyl-acetal is an intermediate used for the synthesis of natural products, such as podophyllotoxin[1] and the related compounds[2～6] due to the useful biological activities associated with some of its derivatives[7, 8]. In particular, glycoside derivatives of 4?dimethyl- 4-epipodophyllotoxin have been used in cancer chemotherapy[9, 10]. The title compound has been synthesized from raw material piperonal, after bromo substitution and acetal protection…     

A Facile Method for Asymmetric Synthesis of β-Hydroxy-α-amino Acids

β-Hydroxy-a-amino acids are an important class of amino acids due to their inherent biological investigations[1] and as structural components of more complex biomolecules.[2] β-Hydroxy-a-amino acids have been used as intermediates in the asymmetric synthesis of other compounds.[3] An efficient and convenient concise method for the preparation of optically pure enantiomers of β-hydroxy-α-amino acids would be of general interest.     

Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Antibacterial Activity of 1-（（2-Chloroquinolin-3-yl）-methyl）-pyridin-2（1H）-one

On the basis of the interesting structures and biological activities exhibited by several heterocyclic systems possessing the pyridone nucleus such as mappcine and camptothecin, we have planed to design the synthesis, crystal studies and antibacterial activity of the new 1-((2- chloroquinolin-3yl)-methyl)-pyridine-2(1H)-one building block. An X-ray analysis has provided valuable insight into the effect of steric factors on the three-dimensional shape of this compound which serves as a useful advanced intermediate in the synthesis of these biologically active molecules. A multistep synthesis of camptothecin (5) has been designed by retrosynthetic analysis as part of an ongoing program on lead anticancer drug.     

Stereoselective Synthesis of (+)-Boronolide

(+)-Boronolide (1) and its deacetylated products have attracted much attention of synthetic chemists due to their diverse biological properties as well as their structural complexities.[1] Many of these reported synthesis involved dehydrogenation of δ-lactone by using benzeneseleninic anhydride or ring-closing olefin metathesis (RCM) to introduce the requisite α,β-unsaturated δ-lactone in boronolide. Here, we report the synthesis of boronolide with diastereoselective propargylation of α-hydroxy aldehyde as the key step and D-gluconolactone as the starting material.     

One-Pot Synthesis of N-Phosphoryl Amino Acids

Phosphoramidates have been considered as an important class of rationally designed therapeutics especially asoligonucleotide analogs employed as antisene and antigene agents. [1] N-Phosphoryl amino acids are of biological andpharmaceutical interest, [2] and can be used as the building blocks in synthesis of polypeptides. [3]     

(+)-MethylCembra-1,3,7,11-tetraene-16-carboxynate的不对称合成研究

The first asymmetric synthesis of ( )-methyl cembra-1,3,7,11-tetraene-16-carboxynate, a naturally occurring cembrane-type macrocyclic diterpene isolated from Sinularia mayi, was achieved via general approach by employing an intramolecular McMurry coupling and Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation as the key steps from readily available starting materials. The synthesis presented here verifies that the absolute configuration of compound 1 was assumed as 15R.     

First Total Synthesis of (±)-3-(5-Hydroxy-4,7,8-trimethyl-3E,8-nonadiene)-△~2-butenolide

Compound 1, an unusual homosesquiterpene from the plant Gochnatia glutinosa grown in Argentina1. Its structure was determined by spectroscopic methods, however, the absolute configuration of C-8 and C-10 remained unsolved. As far as we know, neither biological activity nor a total synthesis of 1 has been reported. Here we wish to describe the first total synthesis of (?-1. Our synthetic route started from geraniol 2 as outlined in Scheme 1, and involved three key steps: (1) alkylation of …     

Stereoselective Synthesis of C-Glycosides by Suzuki Cross-coupling Reaction

Carbohydrates and their conjugates have been recognized to play a wide variety of metabolic roles in numerous biological processes.[1] Various modified sugars and analogues have been recently synthesized for further investigation of glycosidase reactions and for the development of specific glycosidase inhibitors.[2] As one of the most important carbohydrate mimics, C-glycosides have attracted great attention due to their stability to chemical or enzymatic hydrolysis of the glycosidic linkage. A number of methodologies for the preparation of C-glycosides have been extensively investigated.[3] We have recently reported the syntheses of novel C-glycosyl amino acids and amino-C-disaccharides possessing a ketose form via the stereoselective 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of exo-methylenesugars (1) and nitrones.[4,5] As a continuation of our research on the synthesis of C-glycosides using exo-methylenesugar as the precursor, we wish to describe here a stereoselective synthesis of C-glycosides by Suzuki cross-coupling reaction.     

Photochemical multicomponent transformation of acceptor-only diazoalkanes by merging their cycloaddition and carbene reactivities

Herein, we report an efficient photochemical method for the synthesis of poly-substituted pyrazoles through a multicomponent reaction of acceptor-only diazoalkanes, alkynes, and solvents(cyclic ethers or nitriles). The key to this success was driven by the photolysis of acceptor-only diazoalkanes to form free carbene species and the fast in situ [3 + 2]-cycloaddition formation of nucleophilic N–H pyrazole derivatives. This work also serves as an entry to allow future reaction design on the combi...     

Chemomics and drug innovation

Chemomics is an interdisciplinary study using approaches from chemoinformatics,bioinformatics,synthetic chemistry,and other related disciplines.Biological systems make natural products from endogenous small molecules (natural product building blocks) through a sequence of enzyme catalytic reactions.For each reaction,the natural product building blocks may contribute a group of atoms to the target natural product.We describe this group of atoms as a chemoyl.A chemome is the complete set of chemoyls in an organism.Chemomics studies chemomes and the principles of natural product syntheses and evolutions.Driven by survival and reproductive demands,biological systems have developed effective protocols to synthesize natural products in order to respond to environmental changes;this results in biological and chemical diversity.In recent years,it has been realized that one of the bottlenecks in drug discovery is the lack of chemical resources for drug screening.Chemomics may solve this problem by revealing the rules governing the creation of chemical diversity in biological systems,and by developing biomimetic synthesis approaches to make quasi natural product libraries for drug screening.This treatise introduces chemomics and outlines its contents and potential applications in the fields of drug innovation.     

New Synthetic Method of Azuleno[1,2-c]thiophenes

On the viewpoints of physical and chemical properties and biological activities, syntheses of a variety of heterocycle-fused azulenes have been repoted.[1] Of them, thiophene-fused azulenes were prepared by using different types of stating materials as follows. Azuleno[2,1-b] thiophenes are readily obtained from the reactions of 2-chloroazulene derivatives with ethyl mercaptoacetate in a few steps in good yield by Matsui[2] and Yamane.[3] On the other hand, the first synthesis of azuleno[1,2-c]thiophenes was accomplished by the reaction of 3-methoxycarbonyl-2H-cyclohepta[b]furan2-one with morpholino enamine of 3-oxotetrahydro-thiophene followed by dehydrogenation in poor yield by Fujimori.