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Total Synthesis of BE-43472B
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PhD Work with Prof. André B. Charette
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The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, California
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The Scripps Research Institute World's largest, private non-profit biomedical research facility Founded in 1961 by Frank Dixon, M.D. 289 Faculty members 815 Postdoctoral fellows 235 Graduate students 1,500 technical and administrative support personnel
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The Scripps Research Institute K. C. Nicolaou - Chairman of chemistry dept. Barry K. Sharpless - Nobel laureate Phil S. Baran Dale Boger Carlos F. Barbas III Jin-Quan Yu Albert Eschenmoser Kim D. Jenda Richard Lerner Peter Schultz Julius Rebek Jr. Director, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
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BE-43472B Organism inhibited IC 50, M MRSA, ATCC 43300 Methicilin-resistant Straphylococcus aureus 0.15 VRE, ATCC 51299 Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecalis 2.0 HCT-116 Human cancer cells 3.3 New structural class among known antimicrobial agents Isolated from marine streptomycete collected in Puerto Rico Chrysophanol dimer linked in tetrahydrofuran rings with an incorporated acetaldehyde molecule Socha, A. M.; Rowley D. C. et al. J. Nat. Prod. 2006, 69, 1070.
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BE-43472B Retrosynthesis
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Model Studies
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Chrysophanol Derivative Synthesis
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Hauser annulation
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Chiral Diene Synthesis and Diels-Alder Reaction
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E-Reduction of Propargylic Alcohol 1 st report by Corey in 1967 (LiAlH 4 + 2 MeOH) Red-Al introduced 15 years later by Denmark
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Chiral Diene Synthesis and Diels-Alder Reaction
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Ether 1,4-Elimination
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Chiral Diene Synthesis and Diels-Alder Reaction
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Quinone Acceptor Synthesis – Initial Hopes
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Quinone Michael Acceptor Synthesis
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hydrolysis happened in purification
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Quinone Michael Acceptor Synthesis hydrolysis happened in purification
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Quinone Michael Acceptor Synthesis hydrolysis happened in purification
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Quinone Michael Acceptor Synthesis
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Fragments Coupling and Aromatization
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Fragments Coupling Attempts From model studies Real system
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Fragments Coupling and Aromatization
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1,4-Addition Attempts caused by in situ reducing metal?
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1,4-Addition Attempts
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Friedel-Crafts Fragments Coupling Attempts
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New Strategy
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Reversal of the Diene Electronics
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Diene Synthesis
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Diels-Alder with New Diene
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Completion of the Synthesis
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Photochemical Epoxide Rearrangement Nicolaou, K. C.; Lim, Y.-H.; Becker, J.; Lemire, A.; Neubauer, T.; Montero, A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 14812.
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Acknowledgments Prof. K. C. Nicolaou Research group members Yee-Hwee Lim Jochen Becker
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