title: A multicomponent coupling strategy suitable for the synthesis of the triene component of the oxazolomycin antibiotics.
abstract: Concise and versatile routes suitable for the synthesis of three geometric isomers of an analogue of the left hand triene sub-unit of oxazolomycin are reported. A strategy based upon a key Heck reaction was unsuccessful, and this was traced to a combination of steric encumbrance and electronic deactivation of the alkene substrate. An alternative Stille coupling strategy, however, proved to be both versatile and high yielding, and is potentially applicable to the synthesis of analogues with variation both in the side-chain geometry and in the identity of the terminal aromatic or heteroaromatic residue.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Dyson Perrins Laboratory, The University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK OX1 3QY.
authors.forename: Paul G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Bulger
authors.forename: Mark G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Moloney
authors.forename: Paul C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Trippier
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D010080:Oxazoles / Q000737:chemistry*; D011760:Pyrrolidinones; D013141:Spiro Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D010080:Oxazoles; D011760:Pyrrolidinones; D013141:Spiro Compounds; C077919:diffusomycin