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- Title
A Stereocontrolled Total Synthesis of Lipoxin B4 and its Biological Activity as a Pro‐Resolving Lipid Mediator of Neuroinflammation.
- Authors
Frank Lee, C.; Brown, Carla E.; Nielsen, Alexander J.; Kim, Changmo; Livne‐Bar, Izhar; Parsons, Philip J.; Boldron, Christophe; Autelitano, François; Weaver, Donald F.; Sivak, Jeremy M.; Reed, Mark A.
- Abstract
Two stereocontrolled, efficient, and modular syntheses of eicosanoid lipoxin B4 (LXB4) are reported. One features a stereoselective reduction followed by an asymmetric epoxidation sequence to set the vicinal diol stereocentres. The dienyne was installed via a one‐pot Wittig olefination and base‐mediated epoxide ring opening cascade. The other approach installed the diol through an asymmetric dihydroxylation reaction followed by a Horner‐Wadsworth‐Emmons olefination to afford the common dienyne intermediate. Finally, a Sonogashira coupling and an alkyne hydrosilylation/proto‐desilylation protocol furnished LXB4 in 25 % overall yield in just 10 steps. For the first time, LXB4 has been fully characterized spectroscopically with its structure confirmed as previously reported. We have demonstrated that the synthesized LXB4 showed similar biological activity to commercial sources in a cellular neuroprotection model. This synthetic route can be employed to synthesize large quantities of LXB4, enable synthesis of new analogs, and chemical probes for receptor and pathway characterization.
- Subjects
NEUROINFLAMMATION; HORNER-Emmons reaction; EPOXIDATION; LIPOXINS; NATURAL products
- Publication
Chemistry - A European Journal, 2022, Vol 28, Issue 35, p1
- ISSN
0947-6539
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1002/chem.202200360