Toward the total synthesis of Oasomycin A

ORGN 452

David A. Evans, Pavel A. Nagornyy, Kenneth McRay, Dominic Reynolds, and Filisaty Vounatsos. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Oasomycin A is a member of the desertomycin family of macrolide natural products that were isolated during the chemical screening of secondary metabolites of Streptoverticillium baldacii. The relative and absolute stereochemical assignment of Oasomycin A was made by application of the ‘universal NMR database’ developed by Kishi and co-workers. The synthesis of the advanced A-F precursors to Oasomycin A will be presented together with the model studies directed toward coupling of A-B, and D-F fragments by Julia-Kociensky methodology. The investigations towards the late-step deprotection strategy involving novel 4,5-dephenyloxazole oxidation with DDQ are also going to be discussed.