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Varela K, Al Mahmud H, Arman HD, Martinez LR, Wakeman CA, Yoshimoto FK. Autoxidation of a C2-Olefinated Dihydroartemisinic Acid Analogue to Form an Aromatic Ring: Application to Serrulatene Biosynthesis. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2022; 85:951-962. [PMID: 35357832 PMCID: PMC9035337 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.1c01101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Dihydroartemisinic acid (DHAA) is a plant natural product that undergoes a spontaneous endoperoxide-forming cascade reaction to yield artemisinin in the presence of air. The endoperoxide functional group gives artemisinin its biological activity that kills Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria. To enhance our understanding of the mechanism of this cascade reaction, 2,3-didehydrodihydroartemisinic acid (2,3-didehydro-DHAA), a DHAA derivative with a double bond at the C2-position, was synthesized. When 2,3-didehydro-DHAA was exposed to air over time, instead of forming an endoperoxide, this compound predominantly underwent aromatization. This olefinated DHAA analogue reveals the requirement of a monoalkene functional group to initiate the endoperoxide-forming cascade reaction to yield artemisinin from DHAA. In addition, this aromatization process was exploited to illustrate the autoxidation process of a different plant natural product, dihydroserrulatene, to form the aromatic ring in serrulatene. This spontaneous aromatization process has applications in other natural products such as leubethanol and erogorgiaene. Due to their similarity in structure to antimicrobial natural products, the synthesized compounds in this study were tested for biological activity. A group of the tested compounds had minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values ranging from 12.5 to 25 μg/mL against the bacterial pathogen Staphylococcus aureus and the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans.
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- Kaitlyn Varela
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States
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- Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States
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- Department of Oral Biology, University of Florida College of Dentistry, Center for Immunology and Transplantation, Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, and The Emerging Pathogens Institute, Gainesville, Florida 32610, United States
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- Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States
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Minh Le T, Szakonyi Z. Enantiomeric Isopulegol as the Chiral Pool in the Total Synthesis of Bioactive Agents. CHEM REC 2021; 22:e202100194. [PMID: 34553822 DOI: 10.1002/tcr.202100194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2021] [Revised: 09/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Isopulegol, a pool of abundant chiral terpene, has long served as the starting material for the total synthesis of isopulegol-based drugs. As an inexpensive and versatile starting material, this compound continues to serve modern synthetic chemistry. This review highlights the total syntheses of terpenoids in the period from 1980 to 2020 in which with isopulegol applied as a building block.
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- Tam Minh Le
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Szeged, Interdisciplinary Excellent Center, Eötvös utca 6, H-6720, Szeged, Hungary.,Stereochemistry Research Group of the Hungarian Academy Science, Eötvös utca 6, H-6720, Szeged, Hungary
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Szeged, Interdisciplinary Excellent Center, Eötvös utca 6, H-6720, Szeged, Hungary.,Interdisciplinary Centre of Natural Products, University of Szeged, Eötvös utca 6, H-6720, Szeged, Hungary
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Miller GP, Bhat WW, Lanier ER, Johnson SR, Mathieu DT, Hamberger B. The biosynthesis of the anti-microbial diterpenoid leubethanol in Leucophyllum frutescens proceeds via an all-cis prenyl intermediate. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2020; 104:693-705. [PMID: 32777127 PMCID: PMC7649979 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2020] [Revised: 06/17/2020] [Accepted: 07/16/2020] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Serrulatane diterpenoids are natural products found in plants from a subset of genera within the figwort family (Scrophulariaceae). Many of these compounds have been characterized as having anti-microbial properties and share a common diterpene backbone. One example, leubethanol from Texas sage (Leucophyllum frutescens) has demonstrated activity against multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis. Leubethanol is the only serrulatane diterpenoid identified from this genus; however, a range of such compounds have been found throughout the closely related Eremophila genus. Despite their potential therapeutic relevance, the biosynthesis of serrulatane diterpenoids has not been previously reported. Here we leverage the simple product profile and high accumulation of leubethanol in the roots of L. frutescens and compare tissue-specific transcriptomes with existing data from Eremophila serrulata to decipher the biosynthesis of leubethanol. A short-chain cis-prenyl transferase (LfCPT1) first produces the rare diterpene precursor nerylneryl diphosphate, which is cyclized by an unusual plastidial terpene synthase (LfTPS1) into the characteristic serrulatane diterpene backbone. Final conversion to leubethanol is catalyzed by a cytochrome P450 (CYP71D616) of the CYP71 clan. This pathway documents the presence of a short-chain cis-prenyl diphosphate synthase, previously only found in Solanaceae, which is likely involved in the biosynthesis of other known diterpene backbones in Eremophila. LfTPS1 represents neofunctionalization of a compartment-switching terpene synthase accepting a novel substrate in the plastid. Biosynthetic access to leubethanol will enable pathway discovery to more complex serrulatane diterpenoids which share this common starting structure and provide a platform for the production and diversification of this class of promising anti-microbial therapeutics in heterologous systems.
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- Garret P. Miller
- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
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- Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
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Hou SH, Prichina AY, Zhang M, Dong G. Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Di- and Sesquiterpenoids by Catalytic C-C Activation of Cyclopentanones. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:7848-7856. [PMID: 32086872 PMCID: PMC7219654 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201915821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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To show the synthetic utility of the catalytic C-C activation of less strained substrates, described here are the collective and concise syntheses of the natural products (-)-microthecaline A, (-)-leubehanol, (+)-pseudopteroxazole, (+)-seco-pseudopteroxazole, pseudopterosin A-F and G-J aglycones, and (+)-heritonin. The key step in these syntheses involve a Rh-catalyzed C-C/C-H activation cascade of 3-arylcyclopentanones, which provides a rapid and enantioselective route to access the polysubstituted tetrahydronaphthalene cores presented in these natural products. Other important features include 1) the direct C-H amination of the tetralone substrate in the synthesis of (-)-microthecaline A, 2) the use of phosphoric acid to enhance efficiency and regioselectivity for problematic cyclopentanone substrates in the C-C activation reactions, and 3) the direct conversion of serrulatane into amphilectane diterpenes by an allylic cyclodehydrogenation coupling.
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- Si-Hua Hou
- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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Hou S, Prichina AY, Zhang M, Dong G. Asymmetric Total Syntheses of Di‐ and Sesquiterpenoids by Catalytic C−C Activation of Cyclopentanones. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201915821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Si‐Hua Hou
- Department of Chemistry University of Chicago Chicago IL 60637 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Chicago Chicago IL 60637 USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Chicago Chicago IL 60637 USA
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Hydroboration–Oxidation of Terpenoids in Targeted Syntheses of Low-Molecular-Mass Bioregulators. Chem Nat Compd 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10600-020-02935-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Tenneti S, Biswas S, Cox GA, Mans DJ, Lim HJ, RajanBabu TV. Broadly Applicable Stereoselective Syntheses of Serrulatane, Amphilectane Diterpenes, and Their Diastereoisomeric Congeners Using Asymmetric Hydrovinylation for Absolute Stereochemical Control. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:9868-9881. [PMID: 30001133 PMCID: PMC6082684 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b03549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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A stereogenic center, placed at an exocyclic location next to a chiral carbon in a ring to which it is attached, is a ubiquitous structural motif seen in many bioactive natural products, including di- and triterpenes and steroids. Installation of these centers has been a long-standing problem in organic chemistry. Few classes of compounds illustrate this problem better than serrulatanes and amphilectanes, which carry multiple methyl-bearing exocyclic chiral centers. Nickel-catalyzed asymmetric hydrovinylation (AHV) of vinylarenes and 1,3-dienes such as 1-vinylcycloalkenes provides an exceptionally facile way of introducing these chiral centers. This Article documents our efforts to demonstrate the generality of AHV to access not only the natural products but also their various diastereoisomeric derivatives. Key to success here is the availability of highly tunable phosphoramidite Ni(II) complexes useful for overcoming the inherent selectivity of the chiral intermediates. The yields for hydrovinylation (HV) reactions are excellent, and selectivities are in the range of 92-99% for the desired isomers. Discovery of novel, configurationally fluxional, yet sterically less demanding 2,2'-biphenol-derived phosphoramidite Ni complexes (fully characterized by X-ray) turned out to be critical for success in several HV reactions. We also report a less spectacular yet equally important role of solvents in a metal-ammonia reduction for the installation of a key benzylic chiral center. Starting with simple oxygenated styrene derivatives, we iteratively install the various exocyclic chiral centers present in typical serrulatane [e.g., a (+)- p-benzoquinone natural product, elisabethadione, nor-elisabethadione, helioporin D, a known advanced intermediate for the synthesis of colombiasin and elisapterosin] and amphilectane [e.g., A-F, G-J, and K,L pseudopterosins] derivatives. A concise table showing various synthetic approaches to these molecules is included in the Supporting Information. Our attempts to synthesize a hitherto elusive target, elisabethin A, led to a stereoselective, biomimetic route to pseudopterosin A-F aglycones.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 100 West 18th Avenue, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 United States
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Furofuran lignans from the Simpson Desert species Eremophila macdonnellii. Fitoterapia 2018; 126:93-97. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fitote.2017.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2017] [Revised: 06/01/2017] [Accepted: 06/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Tan YP, Savchenko AI, Broit N, Boyle GM, Parsons PG, Williams CM. The First Plant 5,6-Secosteroid from the Australian Arid Zone SpeciesFrankenia foliosa. European J Org Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201700035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Yuen P. Tan
- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences; University of Queensland; 4072 Brisbane Queensland Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences; University of Queensland; 4072 Brisbane Queensland Australia
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- PO Royal Brisbane Hospital; QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute; 4029 Brisbane Queensland Australia
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- PO Royal Brisbane Hospital; QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute; 4029 Brisbane Queensland Australia
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- PO Royal Brisbane Hospital; QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute; 4029 Brisbane Queensland Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences; University of Queensland; 4072 Brisbane Queensland Australia
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Incerti-Pradillos CA, Kabeshov MA, O'Hora PS, Shipilovskikh SA, Rubtsov AE, Drobkova VA, Balandina SY, Malkov AV. Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (−)-Erogorgiaene and Its C-11 Epimer and Investigation of Their Antimycobacterial Activity. Chemistry 2016; 22:14390-6. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201602440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Department of Chemistry; Loughborough University; Loughborough LE11 3TU UK
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- Department of Chemistry; Loughborough University; Loughborough LE11 3TU UK
- Department of Chemistry; Perm State University; Bukireva 15 614990 Perm Russia
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- Department of Chemistry; Perm State University; Bukireva 15 614990 Perm Russia
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- Department of Chemistry; Loughborough University; Loughborough LE11 3TU UK
- Chemistry Department; Peoples' Friendship University of Russia; Miklukho-Maklaya 6 117198 Moscow Russia
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Yu X, Su F, Liu C, Yuan H, Zhao S, Zhou Z, Quan T, Luo T. Enantioselective Total Syntheses of Various Amphilectane and Serrulatane Diterpenoids via Cope Rearrangements. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:6261-70. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b02624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Xuerong Yu
- Key
Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Ministry
of Education and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science,
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Key
Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Ministry
of Education and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science,
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Key
Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Ministry
of Education and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science,
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Key
Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Ministry
of Education and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science,
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Key
Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Ministry
of Education and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science,
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Key
Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Ministry
of Education and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science,
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Peking-Tsinghua
Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Key
Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Ministry
of Education and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science,
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- Peking-Tsinghua
Center for Life Sciences, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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O'Hora PS, Incerti-Pradillos CA, Kabeshov MA, Shipilovskikh SA, Rubtsov AE, Elsegood MRJ, Malkov AV. Catalytic Asymmetric Crotylation of Aldehydes: Application in Total Synthesis of (−)-Elisabethadione. Chemistry 2015; 21:4551-5. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201500176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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This review covers the isolation and chemistry of diterpenoids from terrestrial as opposed to marine sources and includes labdanes, clerodanes, pimaranes, abietanes, kauranes, gibberellins, cembranes and their cyclization products. The literature from January to December 2013 is reviewed.
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García-Sánchez E, Ramírez-López CB, Talavera-Alemán A, León-Hernández A, Martínez-Muñoz RE, Martínez-Pacheco MM, Gómez-Hurtado MA, Cerda-García-Rojas CM, Joseph-Nathan P, del Río RE. Absolute configuration of (13R)- and (13S)-labdane diterpenes coexisting in Ageratina jocotepecana. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2014; 77:1005-1012. [PMID: 24702233 DOI: 10.1021/np500022w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Chemical investigation of the hexanes extracts of Ageratina jocotepecana afforded (-)-(5S,9S,10S,13S)-labd-7-en-15-oic acid (1), methyl (-)-(5S,9S,10S,13S)-labd-7-en-15-oate (2), (+)-(5S,8R,9R,10S,13R)-8-hydroxylabdan-15-oic acid (3), and (-)-(5S,9S,10S,13Z)-labda-7,13-dien-15-oic acid (5). The coexistence of (13R)- and (13S)-labdanes in this member of the Asteraceae family was demonstrated by vibration circular dichroism measurements of ester 2 and methyl (+)-(5S,8R,9R,10S,13R)-8-hydroxylabdan-15-oate (4) in comparison to the DFT B3LYP/DGDZVP-calculated spectra. In addition, transformation of 1 and 3 with HClO4 in MeOH yielded epimeric methyl (+)-(5S,10S,13S)-labd-8-en-15-oate (6) and methyl (+)-(5S,10S,13R)-labd-8-en-15-oate (7), respectively, confirming the presence of C-13 epimers in this plant. Diterpene 1 showed remarkable antibacterial activity against Bacillus subtilis (MIC 0.15 mg/mL) and Staphylococcus aureus (MIC 0.78 mg/mL), while diterpene 3 exhibited moderate activities against the same organisms.
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- Edgar García-Sánchez
- Instituto de Investigaciones Químico Biológicas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo , Ciudad Universitaria, Morelia, Michoacán 58030, Mexico
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