Synthetic strategies for natural products premised on biosynthetic proposals

ORGN 550

Daniel Romo, romo@tamu.edu, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M Univ, P.O. Box 30012, College Station, TX 77845
Several ongoing total synthesis projects in our group utilize strategies that are premised on proposed biosynthetic proposals. Ideally, these proposals delineate strategic bond disconnections and reorganizations but may or may not be related to what is being done by the organisms from which these natural products are derived. In most cases, the biosynthesis of these natural products have not been fully delineated however reasonable biosynthetic proposals provide an instructive means to generate efficient routes to the target molecules. Selected studies from our ongoing work towards oroidin alkaloids and beta-lactone containing proteasome inhibitors will serve to illustrate this strategy.
 

Biomimetic Natural and Unnatural Products Synthesis
8:30 AM-11:55 AM, Wednesday, March 28, 2007 McCormick Place Lakeside -- Room E350, Level 3, Oral

Division of Organic Chemistry

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007