Total Synthesis and Stereochemical Revision of Stereocalpin A: Mirror-Image Approach for Stereochemical Assignments of the Peptide-Polyketide Macrocycle

The Journal of Organic Chemistry
Masato KanedaShinya Oishi

Abstract

Stereocalpin A is a cyclic depsipeptide with cytotoxic activity isolated from the Antarctic lichen Stereocaulon alpinum. Although a number of synthetic investigations of the unprecedented 12-membered macrocycle of stereocalpin A with a dipeptide segment and a polyketide substructure have been conducted, the configurational assignment has not been completed. In this study, we achieved the first total synthesis and stereochemical revision of stereocalpin A. To facilitate the comprehensive assessment of eight possible stereocalpin A isomers, four stereoisomers of polyketide precursors were conjugated with l-Phe-l-MePhe and d-Phe-d-MePhe dipeptides (MePhe: N-methylphenylalanine) to provide four possible isomers and four mirror-image structures of the remaining isomers, respectively. The comparative NMR analysis of a series of stereoisomers revealed that stereocalpin A possesses 2 R,4 S,5 R-configurations, which is unique among the related 12-membered hybrid peptide-polyketide natural products reported recently. The NOE correlations in the polyketide substructure of stereocalpin A were also retrospectively analyzed among the eight possible stereoisomers.

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