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H. G. Cuder, Biologically Active Natural Products, Potential Use in Agriculture, ACS Symposium Series 380, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., 1988. 

Applications of our results in 1-hydroxyindole chemistry and our tungstate method to the syntheses of novel heterocyclic compounds and biologically active natural products are summarized in this section. 

Of these, the 2(5//)-furanones 2 are perhaps the compounds having the most interesting synthetic and biological importance. The synthesis and properties of compounds 2 have recently attracted much attention. The 2(5//)-furanone fragment is present in a wide variety of biologically active natural products (84MI1) moreover these furanones possess utility as valuable synthetic intermediates (86T3715). 

Further examples of the utility of the allylic sulfoxide-sulfenate interconversion in the construction of various biologically active natural products include intermediates such as the /Miydroxy-a-methylene-y-butyrolactones (e.g. 63)128 and tetrahydrochromanone derivative 64129. Interestingly, the facility and efficiency of this rearrangement has also attracted attention beyond the conventional boundaries of organic chemistry. Thus, a study on mechanism-based enzyme inactivation using an allyl sulfoxide-sulfenate rearrangement has also been published130 131. 

Tietze L. F., Modi A. Multicomponent Domino Reactions for the Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products and Drugs Med. Res. Rev. 2000 20 304-322 Keywords Diels-Alder reactions... 

A constant interest in the development of new rapid methodologies for the preparation of oxazole hbraries is motivated by their presence in numerous biologically active natural products. Janda and coworkers were hrst to show that oxazoles can be obtained by microwave-assisted treatment of polymer-bound a-acylamino-/f-ketoesters with Burgess reagent [68]. Hydroxybutyl-functionalized /anda/el resin was used for this investigation, with key steps being monitored by on-bead FT-IR. First, a resin-bound acetoacetate was pre-... 

Cyclopropane rings are commonly found in biologically active natural products and therapeutic drug molecules [50-52]. Iron porphyrins are active catalysts for the... 

Entry 4 involves nitrogen participation and formation of an iminium ion that is reduced by NaBH4. The reaction in Entry 5 creates an 11-methylenebicyclo[4.3.1]undecen-3-one structure found in a biologically active natural product. Note that this fragmentation creates a bridgehead double bond. Entry 6 involves construction of a portion of the taxol structure. The reaction in Entry 7 is stereospecific, leading to the E-double bond. 

The tetrahydropyran moiety, another oxacycle, is also found in many biologically active natural products from marine and terrestrial origin. Consequently, an easy access to stereodefmed tetrahydropyrans by inventive and reliable strategies has been shown to be an important issue [12]. 

Internal acetals are found in several biological active natural products such as di-hydroclerodin [209] and aflatoxins as 6/2-70 [210]. An efficient formation of this functionality was described by Eilbracht and coworkers [211], using a hydroformylation of an enediol as 6/2-71 to give the tetrahydrofurobenzofurans 6/2-72 (Scheme 6/2.15). 

Negishi coupling of 2-furylzinc chloride with vinyl telluride provided 2-substituted furan with (Z)-double bond in a stereoselective manner, which was used in the total synthesis of l-(Z)-atractylodinol, a biologically active natural product as depicted in the following scheme <06TL8183>... 

CHEW, F.S., Biological effects of glucosinolates. In Biologically Active Natural Products Potential Use in Agriculture (H.G. Cutler, ed.), American Chemical Society, Washington DC. 1988, pp. 155-181. 

Plants are combinatorial chemists par excellence, and understanding the principles that relate enzyme structure to function will open up unlimited possibilities for the rational design of new enzymes to generate novel biologically active natural products (see Chapter by Noel et al.). 

As mentioned in Section 2.3, a large number of biologically active natural products contain quaternary carbon atoms, and the addition of carbon nucleophiles to ketones has attracted increasing attention for the construction of quaternary carbon centers. 

The broad range of alkenes undergoing asymmetric hydrogenation using ruthenium-based systems as catalysts has attracted the attention of chemists engaged in the synthesis of chiral biologically active natural products (Scheme 13)[60] and other pharmaceuticals (Scheme 14)[61]. a, (3-Unsaturated phosphoric acids and esters have also proved to be suitable substrates for Ru(II)-catalysed asymmetric hydrogenation [62]. 

Methylene lactones deserve special interest due to their presence in many biologically active natural products [139]. Norton et al. have developed an... 

Aldrich JR (1988) Chemistry and biological activity of pentatomid sex pheromones. In Cutler H (ed) Biologically active natural products potential uses in agriculture. Am Chem Soc Symposium Series 380, Washington DC, p 417... 

Chemistry and Biotechnology of Biologically Active Natural Products edited by Cs. Szdntay, A Gottsegen and G. Kovacs... 

Vaughn SF (1999) Glucosinolates as natural herbicides. In Cutler HG, Cutler SJ (eds) Biologically active natural products agrochemicals. CRC Press, Boca Roton, FL81-91... 

The potential application of this catalytic system was illustrated by Takemoto in the application to a tandem conjugate addition towards the asymmetric synthesis of (-)-epibatidine, a biologically active natural product [100, 101], The authors designed an enantioselective double Michael addition of an unsaturated functionalized P-ketoester to a p-aryl nitro-olefm. The asymmetric synthesis of the 4-nitro-cyclohexanones was achieved in both high diastereoselectivity and enantioselectivity, with the natural product precursor synthesized in 90% yield and 87.5 12.5 er (Scheme 49). The target (-)-epibatidine was subsequently achieved in six steps. 

The goal of a total synthesis of a biologically active natural product should never be regarded as fully realized until the relevant enantiomer is obtained in homogeneous form. In the case at hand, the attainment of the goal was a particularly urgent matter, since the synthesis of NeuSAc glycosides was the primary thnist of the effort. 

The study of marine natural products has great possibilities for new products. Thus, Paul Scheuer from Hawaii studied bioactive compounds from mollusks and other marine sources. Luigi Minale, Raffaele Riccio and Maria lorizzi from Italy, conducted a comprehensive research on marine steroidal glycosides. Joel Kashman from Tel-Aviv University investigated on the biologically active natural products from marine organisms. 

Wedge DE, Campet ND, Connections between agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals, in Cutlet HC, Cutlet SJ, (eds.), Biologically Active Natural Products Pharmaceuticals, CRC Ptess, Boca Raton, FL. pp. 1—15, 2000. 

During the synthesis of the natural and biologically active natural products, Stemo-furan A (139), Eupomatenoid b (140) and Coumestan (141), the [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangements of a hydroxylamine were used. 

The 3-indolylbenzoquinone fragment is a core structure in a number of biologically active natural products such as asterriquinones [49, 50]. The asterriquinones and demethylasterriquinones exhibit a wide spectrum of biological activities, including antitumor properties, and are inhibitors of HIV reverse transcriptase [51-53]. Asterriquinone Al has been shown to stop the cell cycle in G1 and promote apoptotic cell death [54, 55]. Recently, asterriquinone has been reported to be an orally active non-peptidyl mimetic of insulin with antidiabetic activity [56]. The simplest and the most straightforward approach for the synthesis of indol-... 

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