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Stereoselective synthesis of pseudopeptide microbial agent AI-77-B
A K Ghosh1, A Bischoff, J Cappiello
1Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA. arunghos@uic.edu
Organic Letters
|August 17, 2001
Abstract:
[structure: see text]. An efficient and highly stereoselective synthesis of the gastroprotective natural product AI-77-B is described. The stereocenters of the hydroxy amino acid moiety were generated by an ester-derived titanium-enolate-mediated syn-aldol reaction, a Curtius rearrangement, and application of Dondoni's aldehyde homologation. Condensation with the dihydroisocoumarin fragment and subsequent deprotecting transformations furnished optically active AI-77-B.