total synthesis of: (-) mersicarpine research: tohru fukuyama presentation: carl brothers
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Total Synthesis of:(-) Mersicarpine
Research: Tohru Fukuyama
Presentation: Carl Brothers
Tohru Fukuyama
• Chemistry Professor at University of Tokyo in Japan– Graduate school of
Pharmaceutical Sciences
– Synthetic Natural Products chemistry
• Discovered Fukuyama Coupling in 1998
Fukuyama Coupling
• Coupling between a thioester and an organozinc halide in the presence of a palladium catalyst.– Mild reaction conditions– High chemoselectivity– Less toxic reagents– Stops at ketone
Mersicarpine
• Found in the stem-bark extract of the Malayan K. arborea.– Also found in other Kopsia.
• A small tree with waxy leaves, white flowers, and dark fruit.
• Found in lowland rainforests and beach forests close to the sea throuought southeast Asia and parts of Australia.
Mersicarpine
• Indole alkaloid.• Biological activity?• Medicinal uses?• Similar
compounds show anti- cancer and anti- HIV activity.
Retrosynthetic Analysis
Sonogashira Coupling
Eschenmoser-Tanabe Fragmnetation
Oxidation
cyclization
Synthesis of “starting material”
32% 77%, 87% ee
9, 44%, 99% ee
Semicarbazide hydrochloride, sodium acetate, ethanol
0 C, 24 h
Total Synthesis
72%
87%
88%
60%
87%
78%
78%
97%
76%
96%, 1.34% from cyclohexanone
42 mg of final product
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