The long-term goal of the ongoing and proposed research project is to fundamentally innovate organic synthesis such that a wide variety of organic compounds of biological and medicinal significance can be prepared in efficient, selective, practically useful, and economical manners. Critically needed is to keep improving substantially and continuously organic synthesis through introduction of new and superior synthetically useful reactions, protocols, and procedures. In the NIH-supported research project, this goal has been pursued primarily through active and judicious incorporation of fundamentally superior reactions employing transition metals and their complexes primarily as catalysts, such as the Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling and the Zr-catalyzed carboalumination of alkynes. During the current grant period, the Zr-catalyzed asymmetric carboalumination of alkenes (ZACA reaction hereafter) discovered by the PI has been developed into a general and potentially useful asymmetric carbon-carbon bond-formation reaction. Thus, the use of the ZACA reaction in target-guided development of protocols and procedures for the synthesis of chiral organic compounds, especially those alkenes, oligoenes, oligoenynes that contain 1 or more proximal asymmetric carbon centers is 1 of the main specific aims of the proposed research. It is fully intended to seek unprecedented high levels of efficiency and selectivity such that the preparation of the desired complex molecules would become genuinely practical for various purposes including medicinal screening and even industrial production. Some of the target compounds whose total syntheses will be attempted during the proposed grant period include mycolactones A and B, delactonmycin, ratjadone, lacrimin A, fluvirucinin A, as well as some (Z)-carotenoids and oligoynes. Equally important in the proposed research are syntheses of those fragments of compounds of biological and medicinal interest that are highly pertinent to the proposed methodological investigations. Being considered for this purpose are discodermolide, hennoxazole A, zincophorin, roselipins, apoptolidin, nafuredin, caIlystatin A, milbemycin B3, calyculin A, and amphotericin B. ? ? ?

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
2R01GM036792-20
Application #
7212329
Study Section
Synthetic and Biological Chemistry B Study Section (SBCB)
Program Officer
Schwab, John M
Project Start
1986-07-01
Project End
2010-11-30
Budget Start
2006-12-04
Budget End
2007-11-30
Support Year
20
Fiscal Year
2007
Total Cost
$368,226
Indirect Cost
Name
Purdue University
Department
Chemistry
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
072051394
City
West Lafayette
State
IN
Country
United States
Zip Code
47907
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