The laulimalide family: total synthesis and biological evaluation of neolaulimalide, isolaulimalide, laulimalide and a nonnatural analogue

Gollner, Andreas; Altmann, Karl-Heinz; Gertsch, Jürg; Mulzer, Johann (2009). The laulimalide family: total synthesis and biological evaluation of neolaulimalide, isolaulimalide, laulimalide and a nonnatural analogue. Chemistry - a European journal, 15(24), pp. 5979-97. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH 10.1002/chem.200802605

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We herein describe in full detail the first total synthesis of the antitumor agents neolaulimalide and isolaulimalide as well as a highly efficient route to laulimalide. A Kulinkovich reaction followed by a cyclopropyl-allyl rearrangement is used to install the exo-methylene group. The C(2)-C(16) aldehyde fragment is coupled with the C(17)-C(28) sulfone fragments by a highly (E)-selective Julia-Lythgoe-Kocienski olefination to deliver the key intermediates of all three syntheses. Various conditions for the Yamaguchi macrolactonization are applied to close the individual macrocycles. Finally a carefully elaborated endgame was developed to solve the problem of acyl migration in the case of neolaulimalide. All compounds were tested against several cell lines. The cytotoxicity of neolaulimalide could be confirmed for the first time since its original isolation and it could be shown that it induces tubulin polymerization as efficiently as laulimalide.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

UniBE Contributor:

Gertsch, Jürg

ISSN:

0947-6539

Publisher:

Wiley-VCH

Language:

English

Submitter:

Factscience Import

Date Deposited:

04 Oct 2013 15:12

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:22

Publisher DOI:

10.1002/chem.200802605

PubMed ID:

19402092

Web of Science ID:

000267278900016

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/31621 (FactScience: 196252)

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