title: Total syntheses of naturally occurring seimatopolide A and its enantiomer from chiral pool starting materials using a bidirectional strategy.
abstract: Enantioselective total syntheses of both enantiomers of the recently isolated decanolide natural product seimatopolide A are described. The C(2)-symmetric building blocks (R,R)-hexa-1,5-diene-3,4-diol (derived from D-mannitol) and its enantiomer (derived from l-(+)-tartrate) serve as key starting materials, which are elaborated in a bidirectional way using a selective mono-cross-metathesis, regio- and stereoselective epoxidation, and regioselective reductive epoxide opening to furnish the first fragment. Both enantiomers of the second fragment, 3-hydroxypent-4-enoic acid, were conveniently obtained through a lipase-catalyzed kinetic resolution and merged with the first fragment via Shiina esterification. An E-selective ring-closing metathesis was used to access the 10-membered lactone. A comparison of the specific optical rotations of synthetic seimatopolides with those reported for the natural product suggests that the originally assigned (3R,6R,7R,9S)-configuration should be corrected to (3S,6S,7S,9R).
authors.affiliation: Institut fuer Chemie (Organische Synthesechemie), Universitaet Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany. bernd.schmidt@uni-potsdam.de
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Oliver
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kunz
authors.forename: Monib H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Petersen
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D004951:Esterification; D007700:Kinetics; D018942:Macrolides / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D015394:Molecular Structure; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D018942:Macrolides; C573610:seimatopolide A