Synthesis of 7-substituted tetracycline derivatives

[formula: see text] The synthesis of 7-substituted tetracycline derivatives has been accomplished in high yield from 7-halotetracyclines by modified Suzuki and Stille coupling protocols. These novel derivatives may serve as a new class of tetracycline antibiotics effective against multi-antibiotic-resistant bacteria.     

Synthesis of 3-Alkylidenecepham-4-carboxylic Acid derivatives by Samarium(II) Iodide Reduction

Samarium(II) iodide promoted reductive deacetoxylation of 7-aminocephalosporanic acid derivatives to synthesize 3-alkylidenecepham-4-carboxylates, which could be valuable intermediates for the synthesis of new cephalosporin antibiotics, was investigated.     

Contributions to the synthesis of some ferrocene-containing antibiotics

This Review discusses the synthesis and characterization by our Group of new antibiotics belonging to the class of penicillins, cephalosporins and rifamycins with ferrocenyl and 1, 1′-ferrocenilene residues in the molecule. As reactants for 6-aminopenicillanic acid (6-APA) and 7-aminocephalosporanic acid (7-ACA) the following were used: 1, 1-bis(chlorocarbonyl)ferrocene, ferrocenyl sulfochloride, 1, 1′-ferrocenylenedisulfochloride and thioglycolic acids S-modified with ferrocene. In the synthesis of rifamycins, the hydrazides of the thioglycolic acids, S-modified with ferrocene, were employed as nucleophilic agents. The synthesized intermediates were characterized by elemental analysis, TLC, IR, UV and ¹H NMR spectra. The characterization of new antibiotics was made by TLC, IR and UV spectral analysis. Biological activity was tested on Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Good activity is reported towards Gram-positive bacteria in the case of derivatives containing residues of thioglycolic acid S-modified with ferrocene, the antibacterial activity being similar to that of amoxicillin, carbenicillin and cephalothin. All compounds are inactive towards Gram-negative bacteria.     

Synthesis and characterization of the arylomycin lipoglycopeptide antibiotics and the crystallographic analysis of their complex with signal peptidase

Glycosylation of natural products, including antibiotics, often plays an important role in determining their physical properties and their biological activity, and thus their potential as drug candidates. The arylomycin class of antibiotics inhibits bacterial type I signal peptidase and is comprised of three related series of natural products with a lipopeptide tail attached to a core macrocycle. Previously, we reported the total synthesis of several A series derivatives, which have unmodified core macrocycles, as well as B series derivatives, which have a nitrated macrocycle. We now report the synthesis and biological evaluation of lipoglycopeptide arylomycin variants whose macrocycles are glycosylated with a deoxy-α-mannose substituent, and also in some cases hydroxylated. The synthesis of the derivatives bearing each possible deoxy-α-mannose enantiomer allowed us to assign the absolute stereochemistry of the sugar in the natural product and also to show that while glycosylation does not alter antibacterial activity, it does appear to improve solubility. Crystallographic structural studies of a lipoglycopeptide arylomycin bound to its signal peptidase target reveal the molecular interactions that underlie inhibition and also that the mannose is directed away from the binding site into solvent which suggests that other modifications may be made at the same position to further increase solubility and thus reduce protein binding and possibly optimize the pharmacokinetics of the scaffold.     

Biological potential of pyrimidine derivatives in a new era

Pyrimidine and its derivatives play a wide role in drug discovery processes and have considerable chemical significance and biological activities. Pyrimidines are the building blocks of many natural compounds such as vitamins, liposacharides, and antibiotics. Pyrimidine is used as parent substance for the synthesis of a wide variety of heterocyclic compounds and raw material for drug synthesis and is also crucial in the theoretical development of heterocyclic chemistry and in organic synthesis. Pyrimidine derivatives are vital in several biological activities, i.e. antihypertensive, anticancer, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant activity. This creates interest among researchers who have synthesized a variety of pyrimidine derivatives.     

Total Synthesis and Activity of the Metallo‐β‐lactamase Inhibitor Aspergillomarasmine A

Resistance to β‐lactam antibiotics is mediated primarily by enzymes that hydrolytically inactivate the drugs by one of two mechanisms: serine nucleophilic attack or metal‐dependent activation of a water molecule. Serine β‐lactamases are countered in the clinic by several codrugs that inhibit these enzymes, thereby rescuing antibiotic action. There are no equivalent inhibitors of metallo‐β‐lactamases in clinical use, but the fungal secondary metabolite aspergillomarasmine A has recently been identified as a potential candidate for such a codrug. Herein we report the synthesis of aspergillomarasmine A. The synthesis enabled confirmation of the stereochemical configuration of the compound and offers a route for the synthesis of derivatives in the future.     

Enantioselective addition of ketene silyl acetals to nitrones catalyzed by chiral titanium complexes. Synthesis of optically active beta-amino acids

A chiral titanium complex, Ti(O-i-Pr)(4)/BINOL/tert-butylcatechol, catalyzes enantioselective addition reaction of ketene silyl acetals to nitrones to give optically active beta-amino acid derivatives which are biologically active compounds and useful synthetic intermediates of natural products and pharmaceuticals such as beta-lactam antibiotics. The combined process of catalytic oxidation of secondary amines and enantioselective carbon-carbon bond formation of nitrones thus obtained with ketene silyl acetals provides a useful two-step method for the synthesis of optically active beta-amino acid derivatives and related nitrogen compounds.     

Synthesis and Antibacterial Activities of 7 β-Heterocyclyl-3-(2-substituted 1,3,4-thiadiazol-5-thiometbyl)Cephalosporin

Cephalosporin derivatives are an interesting class of β-lactam antibiotics because of their power against a large number of both Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms. Many efforts have been made to synthesize cephalosporin by varying the substituents. Further pharmacological research indicated the inhibitory activity, broad-spectrum biological activity and β-lactamase resistance determined by the side chain at 7β position of 7-ACA and the structure of substituted group at C₃ position. Actually, most of its applications in clinic are the derivatives linked with heterocyclic at C₃ and 7β position of cephalosporin skeleton. Literature^[1] also revealed that cephalosporin containing aminothiazoloxime at the 7β position of 7-ACA used as antibiotics with obvious applications. Moreover, some compounds bearing 1,2,3-triazole ring at the C₃ position of 7-ACA have been reported to possess better antibacterial activity. For these purpose, we synthesized new cephalosporin 3a-c and 5a-c by the reaction of 7-ACA with 2-arylamino-1,3,4-thiadiazol-5-thioles, and then reacted with 1 -aryl-5-methyl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-formyl chloride 2 or aminothiazoloxime active ester 4,respectively.     

Differential inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus PBP2 by glycopeptide antibiotics

The glycopeptide antibiotics prevent maturation of the bacterial cell wall by binding to the terminal d-alanyl-d-alanine moiety of peptidoglycan precursors, thereby inhibiting the enzymes involved in the final stages of peptidoglycan synthesis. However, there are significant differences in the biological activity of particular glycopeptide derivatives that are not related to their affinity for d-Ala-d-Ala. We compare the ability of vancomycin and a set of clinically relevant glycopeptides to inhibit Staphylococcus aureus PBP2 (penicillin binding protein), the major transglycosylase in a clinically relevant pathogen, S. aureus. We report experiments suggesting that activity differences between glycopeptides against this organism reflect a combination of substrate binding and secondary interactions with key enzymes involved in peptidoglycan synthesis.     

Stereoselective Synthesis of α-Aminonitril on Glucose Templates

Both proteinogenic and non proteinogenic α-amino acids are of particular interest as constituents of peptide factors, peptidomimetics and antibiotics for the construction of modern selective drugs. [1] Furthemore, α-amino acid derivatives are interesting building units for chiral-pool syntheses of enantiomerically pure natural products. [2] Numerous efforts in modern organic synthesis are centered on the synthesis of enantiomerically pure α-amino acids. [3] During the past three decades efficient methods of asymmetric synthesis of α-amino acids have been developed; most of them are based on electrophilic transformations of organometallic intermediates. [4] Using the concept that the chirality of the carbohydrates can be exploited for diastereoselective reactions, Kunz and his cooperator had developed a Strecker synthesis with glycosyl amines as chiral auxiliaries. [5]     

Rethinking ramoplanin: the role of substrate binding in inhibition of peptidoglycan biosynthesis

Ramoplanin is a cyclicdepsipeptide antibiotic that inhibits peptidoglycan biosynthesis. It was proposed in 1990 to block the MurG step of peptidoglycan synthesis by binding to the substrate of MurG, Lipid I. The proposed mechanism of MurG inhibition has become widely accepted even though it was never directly tested. In this paper, we disprove the accepted mechanism for how ramoplanin functions, and we present an alternative mechanism. This work has implications for the design of ramoplanin derivatives and may influence how other proposed substrate binding antibiotics are studied.     

Fluoride-induced cyclization of pentacenequinone to higher quinones

Novel pentacenequinone derivatives 3, 7, and 10 have been synthesized via Suzuki-Miyaura coupling. Derivatives 3 and 7 having OTBS groups undergo irreversible fluoride-induced cyclization to substituted higher quinones in the presence of TBAF in dry THF using one-pot, two-step strategies in moderate yields. These functionalized higher quinone derivatives are freely soluble in THF and DMSO and can be used as precursors for the synthesis of higher acene derivatives.     

Improved Syntheses of Chlorodeoxynucleosides

Halodeoxynucleosides are very useful intermediates in the synthesis of nucleoside and nucleotide derivatives. Because the iodides are more reactive,¹ the corresponding chlorides have received relatively little attention although 5′-chloro-5′-deoxyadenosine (1) is effective in controlling blood pressure,² and has been employed in a novel approach to the synthesis of polynucleotides.³ Other halonucleosides have been cited as potentially important antibiotics.¹     

Fluorophore-appended steroidal saponin (dioscin and polyphyllin D) derivatives

The synthesis of three fluorophore-appended derivatives of dioscin and polyphyllin D is reported herein. Starting from trillin, dansyl derivatives A-C were prepared in overall yields of 7-12% over 7-10 steps. A study of their behavior in a variety of polar solvents suggests that dansyl derivatives A-C are capable of micellar self-assembly and can maintain cytotoxicities (IC50 = 15-18 muM) against the HeLa carcinoma cell line evaluated by standard MTT assay. [structure: see text]     

Recent advances in the synthesis of new glycopeptide antibiotics

The vancomycin family of glycopeptide antibiotics has been inspiring research in the field of synthetic chemistry since the 1980s. Recent studies have moved away from the focus of total synthesis into new territory: the design and evaluation of novel compounds based on the natural products which exhibit improved antibacterial activity. Modern approaches to drug synthesis draw together investigations into the nature of the binding environment, and innovative synthetic methodologies which provide solutions to the challenging structural features and stereochemistry associated with this intriguing class of compounds. New analogues, derivatives and dimers of the natural products, as well as recent successes in the total synthesis of the complestatins are described in this tutorial review, covering literature from the last decade.     

Synthetic studies of carbapenem and penem antibiotics. II. Synthesis of 3-acetyl-2-azetidinones by (2 + 2) cycloaddition of diketene and Schiff bases.

It was found that (2 + 2) cycloaddition reaction of diketene with Schiff bases was effectively promoted by imidazole as a catalyst to afford 3-acetyl-2-azetidinone derivatives 4. As an application of this new method, a practical asymmetric synthesis of 4 and its conversion into (3S,4S)-4-carboxy-1-(di-p-anisylmethyl)-3-[(R)-1-hydroxyethyl]-2- azetidinone, which is a key intermediate for the synthesis of carbapenem and penem antibiotics, were accomplished.     

Synthesis of amino-1,4-benzoquinones and their use in Diels-Alder approaches to the aminonaphthoquinone antibiotics

A new protocol for the synthesis of protected amino-1,4-benzoquinones by oxidation of the corresponding 2,5-dimethoxyaniline derivatives using PhI(OAc)(2) or PhI(OCOCF(3))(2) in water containing 2.5% methanol is reported. The process represents an improvement over previously reported methods, both in terms of yield and number of steps, and in the range of nitrogen protecting groups that it tolerates. A number of novel aminobenzoquinones were prepared and subsequently used as dienophiles in Diels-Alder reactions to form building blocks for the synthesis of the aminonaphthoquinone antibiotics such as salinisporamycin.     

Recent Advances in the Chemistry and Biology of Naturally Occurring Antibiotics

Ever since the world‐shaping discovery of penicillin, nature's molecular diversity has been extensively screened for new medications and lead compounds in drug discovery. The search for agents intended to combat infectious diseases has been of particular interest and has enjoyed a high degree of success. Indeed, the history of antibiotics is marked with impressive discoveries and drug‐development stories, the overwhelming majority of which have their origin in natural products. Chemistry, and in particular chemical synthesis, has played a major role in bringing naturally occurring antibiotics and their derivatives to the clinic, and no doubt these disciplines will continue to be key enabling technologies. In this review article, we highlight a number of recent discoveries and advances in the chemistry, biology, and medicine of naturally occurring antibiotics, with particular emphasis on total synthesis, analogue design, and biological evaluation of molecules with novel mechanisms of action.     

含二茂铁的β-内酰胺的研究进展

β-内酰胺类抗生素是目前最具应用价值的抗生素, 其结构特征具有β-内酰胺环的基元结构, 该类化合物的设计、合成和立体化学研究一直是有机合成化学研究的前沿和热点领域. 二茂铁凭借其独特的结构和多样的性质, 在生物和医药方面均有广泛的应用价值. 因此, 二茂铁修饰的β-内酰胺是一类结构新颖且具有潜在生物活性的化合物. 对该类化合物的深入研究, 将对新型抗生素的研发提供重要的指导意义. 综述了近年来青霉烷类和头孢烯类β-内酰胺及单环类β-内酰胺这两大类含二茂铁取代的β-内酰胺衍生物的合成与生物活性的研究进展.