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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 65, Issue 10, Pages 3192-3199Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo0001582
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01-GM52277] Funding Source: Medline
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The West Indian alcyonacean Pseudopterogorgia bipinnata (Verrill, 1864) is shown to contain a novel bisditerpenoid ether: biskallolide A (2). The structural assignment of 2 was mainly based on 1D and 2D NMR and MS spectral data and was further confirmed by synthesis, The 2-C-alkoxylation of furanopseudopteranes kallolide A (1) and isokallolide A (8) occurs spontaneously in some solvents and involves replacement of the C2 hydroxyl with an alkoxyl group to yield solvolysis products that display net retention of configuration. The facile solvolytic 2-C-acyloxylation of kallolide A was achieved readily under similar circumstances to afford kallolide A acetate (4) as the sole product. Mechanistic details in conversion of alcohols 1 and 8 into various solvolysis products, including dimeric ethers 2 and 9, were investigated in this study. Solvolysis of kallolide A and isokallolide A in [O-18]-labeled solvent demonstrated that the C2 alkoxyl of the solvolysis products originated from the solvent, suggesting that these conversions may proceed through an S(N)1 mechanism with generation of a carbocation intermediate. The chemical structures of kallolide A derivatives 3-7 and those of isokallolide A congeners 9-11 were established by detailed analysis of the spectral data.
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