Efficient Synthesis of Cryptophycin??52 and Novel para??Alkoxymethyl Unit A Analogues

…, T Bogner, M Nahrwold, N Sewald

Index: Eissler, Stefan; Bogner, Tobias; Nahrwold, Markus; Sewald, Norbert Chemistry - A European Journal, 2009 , vol. 15, # 42 p. 11273 - 11287

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Abstract

Abstract Cryptophycins are a family of highly cytotoxic, cyclic depsipeptides. They display antitumour activity that is largely maintained for multi-drug-resistant tumour cells. Cryptophycins are composed of four building blocks (units A–D) that correspond to the respective amino and hydroxy acids. A new synthetic route to unit A allows the selective generation of all four stereogenic centres in a short, efficient and reliable synthesis and ...