Synthesis of marine natural product (-)-pericosine E

Org Lett. 2014 Jul 18;16(14):3760-3. doi: 10.1021/ol501631r. Epub 2014 Jul 3.

Abstract

The first synthesis of (-)-pericosine E (6), a metabolite of the Periconia byssoides OUPS-N133 isolated originally from the sea hare Aplysia kurodai, has been achieved. Efficient and regioselective synthetic procedures for the synthesis of key intermediates, anti- and syn-epoxides 9 and 10, were developed using an anti-epoxidation of diene 12 with TFDO and a bromohydrination of 12 with NBS in CH(3)CN/H(2)O (2:3), respectively. In addition, comparison of the specific optical rotations between synthetic 6 and natural 6 elucidated that the naturally preferred enantiomer of pericosine E had the same absolute configuration as (-)-6 synthesized from chlorohydrin (-)-8 and anti-epoxide (+)-9.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Aplysia / chemistry*
  • Epoxy Compounds / chemistry
  • Marine Biology
  • Molecular Structure
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Shikimic Acid / analogs & derivatives*
  • Shikimic Acid / chemical synthesis*
  • Shikimic Acid / chemistry
  • Stereoisomerism

Substances

  • Epoxy Compounds
  • pericosine E
  • Shikimic Acid