First total synthesis of kipukasin A

• Chuang Li,
• Haixin Ding,
• Zhizhong Ruan,
• Yirong Zhou and
• Qiang Xiao

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 855–862, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.86

• number of antiviral and antitumor drugs [3][4]. On the other hand, naturally occurring nucleosides, especially marine nucleosides, have also played an indispensable role in drug discovery, which make great contribution in the commercialization of cytosine arabinoside (Ara-C), adenine arabinoside (Ara-A

• ) and AZT, etc. [5][6]. Nucleosides and their analogues will continue to play an important role in future drug discovery [7]. In the past decades, exploration of novel naturally occurring marine nucleosides has made expeditious achievements [8][9][10]. Some of them showed promising antibiotic, antiviral

• studies of marine nucleosides, total syntheses of several marine nucleosides were accomplished in our group [14][15][16][17][18]. In the present paper, we reported a practical approach for the total synthesis of kipukasin A. Results and Discussion From the synthetic point of view, it seemed that the most

Concise total synthesis of two marine natural nucleosides: trachycladines A and B

• Haixin Ding,
• Wei Li,
• Zhizhong Ruan,
• Ruchun Yang,
• Zhijie Mao,
• Qiang Xiao and
• Jun Wu

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2014, 10, 1681–1685, doi:10.3762/bjoc.10.176

• perbenzylated 1-O-methyl-5-deoxyribofuranose. The enzyme adenylate deaminase (EC 3.5.4.6) was successfully applied to the chemoenzymatic synthesis of trachycladines B. Keywords: marine nucleosides; natural products; total synthesis; trachycladines A and B; Vorbrüggen glycosylation; Introduction Marine

• ]. The initial discovery of marine nucleosides can be traced back to the identifications of spongothymidine and spongouridine in the early 1950s from the Caribbean sponge Tethyacrypta [8][9], which subsqeuently led to the commercialization of arabinofuranosylcytosine (Ara-C) [10], arabinofuranosyladenine

• kinase receptors and play an important role in related drug discovery [15]. To facilitate the discovery of lead compounds as anticancer reagents from marine nucleosides [16][17][18], the total synthesis of trachycladines A and trachycladines B are reported herein allowing to assemble their unique