Total synthesis of complex heterocyclic natural products

Nicolaou, K. C.; Chen, Jason S.

doi:10.1351/pac200880040727

Pure Appl. Chem., 2008, Vol. 80, No. 4, pp. 727-742

http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac200880040727

Total synthesis of complex heterocyclic natural products

K. C. Nicolaou and Jason S. Chen

Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

Abstract: Total synthesis campaigns toward complex heterocyclic natural products are a prime source of inspiration for the design and execution of complex cascade sequences, powerful reactions, and efficient synthetic strategies. We highlight selected examples of such innovations in the course of our total syntheses of diazonamide A, azaspiracid-1, thiostrepton, 2,2'-epi-cytoskyrin A and rugulosin, abyssomycin C, platensimycin, and uncialamycin.