Dimethyl sulfomycinamate

The oxidation of a thiazolidine derivative to the corresponding thiazole using activated manganese dioxide in dichloromethane at 100 °C is shown in Scheme 6.100. Further manipulation of this molecule led to dimethyl sulfomycinamate, a methano-lysis product of the thiopeptide antibiotic sulfomycin I [203]. 

In the model studies toward the total synthesis of dimethyl sulfomycinamate, Kelly et al. successfully carried out the Stille couplings of oxazolyl triflate 18 with an array of organostannanes [19, 20]. Thus, 2-aryl-4-oxalone 17 was transformed into the corresponding triflate 18, which was then coupled with 2-trimethylstannylpyridine under the agency of Pd(Ph3P)4 and LiCl to provide adduct 19. The couplings of triflate 18 with phenyl-, vinyl- and phenylethynyl trimethyltin all proceeded in excellent yields. Unfortunately, application to the more delicate system in the natural product failed and the oxazole moiety was installed from acyclic precursors. 

Scheme 54 Application of the three-component Bohlmann-Rahtz reaction to the synthesis of dimethyl sulfomycinamate...

Bagley MC, Chapaneri K, Dale JW, Xiong X, Bower J (2005) One-pot multistep Bohlmann-Rahtz heteroannulation reactions synthesis of dimethyl sulfomycinamate. J Org Chem 70 1389-1399... 

The DE ring of camptothecin has been prepared enantioselectively in six steps from 2-fluoropyridine using a halogen dance reaction <95TL(36)7995>. The first total synthesis of dimethyl sulfomycinamate (47) was reported starting from 3-hydroxy-6-methylpyridine (48) <95TL(36)5319>. 

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