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Org Lett. 2017 May 19;19(10):2533-2535. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b00902. Epub 2017 Apr 26.

An Approach to the Core of Lactonamycin.

Organic letters

Philip J Parsons, Daniel R Jones, Lee J Walsh, Lewis A T Allen, Ada Onwubiko, Lewis Preece, Johnathan Board, Andrew J P White

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London , South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.
  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Sussex , Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH, U.K.

PMID: 28445072 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b00902

Abstract

A cascade reaction has been developed for the synthesis of lactonamycin. In this paper, we demonstrate that a transition-metal-free thermal ene-diyne cyclization can be used for the construction of the entire core of the antibiotic lactonamycin and anticancer agent lactonamycin Z.

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