Synfacts 2008(9): 0907-0907  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1077990
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart ˙ New York

Formal Synthesis of Fluvirucinine A1

Contributor(s): Philip Kocienski, Zofia Komsta
S. Son, G. C. Fu*
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
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Publication History

Publication Date:
22 August 2008 (online)

Significance

The target is an aglycone of flu­virucin A1, a macrolide isolated from the fermentation broth of some Actinomycete strains, showing potent activity against influenza A. The formal synthesis depicted focuses on two very efficient enantioselective Negishi-type cross-couplings (A + B → D and E + F → G).