a Department of Chemistry, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, UK b Christie CRC Research Centre, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Christie NHS Trust, Wilmslow Road, Manchester M20 4BX, UK
Abstract:
A potentially biomimetic synthesis of the guanidine-containing marine natural product crambescidin 359 via a double Michael addition of guanidine to a suitably functionalised bis-enone is reported.