title: Total synthesis of (-)-mniopetal E, a novel biologically intriguing drimane sesquiterpenoid.
abstract: We have achieved the total synthesis of (-)-mniopetal E, a drimane sesquiterpenoid which inhibits the reverse transcriptase of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1. Our enantiospecific total synthesis of this target molecule in naturally occurring form commenced with a known 2,3-anhydro-D-arabinitol derivative, which was prepared using the Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation strategy. The key steps of our total synthesis were as follows: (1) a combination of highly stereocontrolled inter- and intramolecular Horner-Emmons carbon elongations for construction of a butenolide tethering a 1,2,4, 9-functionalized nona-5,7-diene moiety at the beta-carbon, (2) stereoselective thermal intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction of the thus-formed trienic compound, providing preferentially an endo-cycloadduct with the desired pi-facial selection, and (3) efficient transformation of the gamma-lactone moiety in the major cycloadduct to the gamma-hydroxy-gamma-lactone part in mniopetal E. Our total synthesis of (-)-mniopetal E established the unsettled absolute stereochemistry of the antibiotic.
authors: Department of Applied Chemistry, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Kohoku-Ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan.
authors: Y
authors: Y
authors: Suzuki
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Nishimaki
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Ishikawa
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Murata
authors: K I
authors: KI
authors: Takao
authors: K I
authors: KI
authors: Tadano
mesh_terms: D019380:Anti-HIV Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D018894:Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D012717:Sesquiterpenes / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D019380:Anti-HIV Agents; D018894:Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors; D012717:Sesquiterpenes; C418129:mniopetal E