Verrucarin E, synthesis

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The power of Muchowski s method is seen by the fact that these bromopyrroles can be subjected to bromine-lithium exchange to afford the versatile 3-lithio species that can be quenched with a variety of electrophiles in good to excellent yields [18-21]. This is illustrated by a synthesis of verrucarin E (11) [19]. 

Anderson and co-workers86 used the cycloaddition of acetylenic esters to 19a and 19 (R = COPh) in the synthesis of the antimitotic agent Verrucarin E (28). The pyrrole 19a and DMAD gave 35% of 21a, whereas 19 (R = COPh) gave 67% of 21 (R = COPh) and 23% of recovered starting material 1-benzoylpyrrole gave 54% of 29 with DEAD. Further transformations produced the natural product. 

The successful synthesis of optically active 7 then led to the first synthesis of verrucarin A (8), a macrotrilactone with significant cytostatic activity. The synthesis involved esterification of the primary alcohol of verrucarol (the tricyclic fragment) with the acetate of 7 (DCC, 4-pyrrolinopyridine) and then with a protected derivative of (E, Z)-muconic acid. After deprotection (Bu4NF), lactonization was effected by the Mitsunobu procedure (7,405-406). 

This procedure has been used by Roush and Blizzard [33] in the synthesis of the macrocyclic mycotoxin verrucarin J (55). Thus, seco acid 54 was treated with 2 equiv of pivaloyl chloride and 3 equiv of triethylamine in dichloromethane (0.01 M) and the resultant mixed anhydride was treated in situ with 4-pyrrolidinopyridine (4-PP) to effect the ring closure at 23 °C. Verrucarin J (55) was obtained in up to 60% yield (Scheme 17). The mixed pivalic anhydride method has also been applied, e.g. to the synthesis of verrucarin B [34] and 4-epiverrucarin A [35] as the key cyclization step. 

Scheme 8.17 Total synthesis of verrucarin A (380) a) DCC, 465, DMAP or 4-pyrrolidmopyridine, 55% b) DCC, 460, DMAP or 4-pyrrolidinopyridine, 95% c) TBAF, THF d) TCBACl, NEtj, THF e) DMAP, toluene, reflux, 50%...

The first report dealing with the synthesis of a macrocyclic tri-chothecene, albeit a non-natural product, originated from Tamm s laboratory in 1978 (22). Three years later, Still and Ohmizu synthesized the first naturally occurring macrocyclic trichothecene verrucarin A (37) (133). Since 1981, the increased availability of verrucarol (82) (150), the sesquiter-penoid backbone for most of the macrocycles, has stimulated work in this area and culminated in Still s recent syntheses (135) of baccharin B5 (59) and roridin E (47), the most complex trichothecenes synthesized to date. Sandwiched between these landmark syntheses have been equally exciting studies initiated by Tamm (verrucarin A and 3a-hydroxyverrucarin A (106), Fraser-Reid and Jarvis (verrucarin J) (42) and Roush (verrucarin J and... 

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