Strategies for the synthesis of brevipolides

• Yudhi D. Kurniawan and
• A'liyatur Rosyidah

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 2399–2416, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.157

• -dihydro-α-pyrone derivatives, bearing either a distinctive cyclopropane or furan ring and named brevipolides A–O (1–15), have been isolated from the invasive plant Hyptis brevipes Poit. Their fascinating structural features, and the potent biological activities, including cytotoxicity against an array of

• –Smith cyclopropanation; Hyptis brevipes Poit; ring-closing metathesis; Introduction Hyptis brevipes Poit. is an invasive plant species belonging to the mint family Lamiaceae [1][2][3][4]. This plant has been reported to originate from tropical America but is now distributed broadly in other tropical

• to determine bioactive chemicals in Hyptis brevipes Poit. and isolated six new 5,6-dihydro-α-pyrone derivatives 1–6 along with other known compounds, including a 5,6-dihydro-α-pyrone derivative 7 [11], from the whole plant collected in Tawangmangu village, Indonesia (Figure 1) [4]. These six new