Total synthesis of antibiotic hygromycin A

…, M Ohtsuka, K Nakazawa, S Ogawa

Index: Chida, Noritaka; Ohtsuka, Masami; Nakazawa, Keiichi; Ogawa, Seiichiro Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1991 ,  vol. 56,  # 9  p. 2976 - 2983

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Abstract

The first total synthesis of the antibiotic (-)-hygromycin A (1) has been achieved by a coupling reaction of the sugar moiety (2) and the cyclitol moiety (3). Both components were synthesized in homochiral forms starting from D-glucose. This synthesis fully confirmed the unique structure of 1, which is much different from other usual aminocyclitol antibiotics.