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Thiols Act as Methyl Traps in the Biocatalytic Demethylation of Guaiacol Derivatives
Grimm, Christopher,Kroutil, Wolfgang,Pompei, Simona,Schiller, Christine,Schober, Lukas
supporting information, p. 16906 - 16910 (2021/07/02)
Demethylating methyl phenyl ethers is challenging, especially when the products are catechol derivatives prone to follow-up reactions. For biocatalytic demethylation, monooxygenases have previously been described requiring molecular oxygen which may cause oxidative side reactions. Here we show that such compounds can be demethylated anaerobically by using cobalamin-dependent methyltransferases exploiting thiols like ethyl 3-mercaptopropionate as a methyl trap. Using just two equivalents of this reagent, a broad spectrum of substituted guaiacol derivatives were demethylated, with conversions mostly above 90 %. This strategy was used to prepare the highly valuable antioxidant hydroxytyrosol on a one-gram scale in 97 % isolated yield.
Functional Group Interconversion of Alkylidenemalononitriles to Primary Alcohols by a Cooperative Redox Operation
Emmetiere, Fabien,Grenning, Alexander J.
, p. 3077 - 3085 (2020/08/10)
Functional group interconversions are essential chemical processes enabling synthesis. In this report, we describe a strategy to convert alkylidenemalononitriles into primary alcohols in one step. The reaction relies on a choreographed redox process invol
Syntheses of retipolide E and ornatipolide, 14-membered biaryl-ether macrolactones from mushrooms
Ingerl, Andrea,Justus, Karl,Hellwig, Veronika,Steglich, Wolfgang
, p. 6548 - 6557 (2008/02/03)
Two approaches for the total synthesis of the spiromacrolide retipolide E (5) are described, the first using a modified Mitsunobu reaction as key step for the formation of the strained 14-membered macrolactone, the second a nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr). In the first approach an α-oxomacrolactone 15 was obtained, which could either be converted into ornatipolide (6) or further transformed into racemic retipolide E [(R,S)-5] by directed aldol condensation with a methyl arylpyruvate. The second approach allowed the synthesis of either racemic or enantiomerically pure retipolide E (5). In the latter case Evans' methodology was used for the introduction of stereogenic center via stereoselective alkylation. The oxazolidinone auxiliary was removed under mild conditions by exchange for 2-arylethanol 22 with Otera's distannoxane catalyst. Synthetic retipolide E allowed the identification of this biosynthetic intermediate in the fruit bodies of the North American mushroom Retiboletus retipes.
