title: Total synthesis of (-)-platensimycin, a novel antibacterial agent.
abstract: An enantioselective synthesis of platensimycin, a novel antibiotic natural product that inhibits bacterial beta-ketoacyl-(acyl-carrier-protein) synthase (FabF), is described. Our synthetic strategy for the construction of the oxatetracyclic core involved an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction. Our preliminary studies provided a complex tetracyclic product by first undergoing an interesting 1,5-hydride shift followed by a Diels-Alder reaction. Further optimization of the diene's electronic properties, by incorporation of a methoxy group, led to the oxatetracyclic core of platensimycin. The three required chiral centers, including two all-carbon quaternary chiral centers, were built in the intramolecular Diels-Alder step. The synthesis utilized natural (+)-carvone as the key chiral starting material, which determined the stereochemistry of the final product. The synthesis also featured an efficient Petasis olefination, a hydroboration sequence, a Gais's asymmetric Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction, and a mercury salt catalyzed enol ether isomerization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA. akghosh@purdue.edu
authors.forename: Arun K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Xi
mesh_terms: D000218:Adamantane / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D062365:Aminobenzoates / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D000813:Anilides / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D062365:Aminobenzoates; D000813:Anilides; D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D000218:Adamantane; C510909:platensimycin