Spirastrellolide A progress C1-C23

ORGN 420

Jin Haek Yang, jyang25@wisc.edu, Jia Liu, and Richard P. Hsung. School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin at Madison, School of Pharmacy, 777 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53705
spirastrellolide A was shown to exhibit potent inhibitory activity against protein phosphatase 2A (IC50 = 1 nM) along with a good selectivity for PP2A over PP1. We became interested in spirastrellolide A as a result of our recent interest and efforts in developing an unconventional approach to the synthesis of spiroketals. In our previous research, the synthesis of the C11-C23 fragment was performed by the acid-promoted ketal formation and the the ketal-tethered RCM strategy. Therefore, we planned to approach C1-C23 fragment with our prowess main step as the application to feature a ketal-tethered RCM strategy for constructing of spiroketals.