Synthesis of synthons for the manufacture of bioactive compounds
申请人:Wong Chi-Huey
公开号:US20070015260A1
公开(公告)日:2007-01-18
The present invention is based on the discovery that 2-deoxyribose-5-phosphate aldolase (DERA, EC 4.1.2.4) and variants thereof can be used to catalyze sequential asymmetric aldol reactions between a wide variety of donor and acceptor aldehydes. The reaction products typically contain at least two new stereogenic centers and can be produced in enantiomerically pure form. As such, DERA catalyzed asymmetric aldol chemistry can be exploited to produce synthons for the synthesis of a variety of bioactive molecules.
The conformationalproperties of the microtubule-stabilizing agent epothilone A ( 1a) and its 3-deoxy and 3-deoxy-2,3-didehydro derivatives 2 and 3 have been investigated in aqueous solution by a combination of NMR spectroscopic methods, Monte Carlo conformational searches, and NAMFIS calculations. The tubulin-bound conformation of epothilone A ( 1a), as previously proposed on the basis of solution