Issue 9, 2011

A practical, convergent route to the key precursor to the tetracycline antibiotics

Abstract

Here we describe a 5-step sequence to prepare the AB enone 1, the key precursor to fully synthetic tetracyclines, that begins with a diastereoselective Michael–Claisen coupling of two simple starting materials, a cyclohexenone (compound 2 or, in a refinement, a substituted variant, vide infra) and the isoxazole ester 3. This advance defines an 8-step linear sequence to 6-deoxytetracycline antibiotics from three components of similar complexity (cyclohexenone 2, isoxazole ester 3, and structurally diverse D-ring precursors) in which sequential diastereoselective Michael–Claisen cyclization reactions form the A- and C-rings, respectively, of the linearly fused ABCD tetracycline skeleton. In addition to providing a readily scalable, practical route to fully synthetic tetracyclines of broad structural diversity, the sequence reported comprises a series of non-obvious stereoselective transformations, including a novel means for C12a hydroxylation.

Graphical abstract: A practical, convergent route to the key precursor to the tetracycline antibiotics

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
18 May 2011
Accepted
08 Jun 2011
First published
07 Jul 2011

Chem. Sci., 2011,2, 1710-1718

A practical, convergent route to the key precursor to the tetracycline antibiotics

D. A. Kummer, D. Li, A. Dion and A. G. Myers, Chem. Sci., 2011, 2, 1710 DOI: 10.1039/C1SC00303H

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