Total synthesis of dehaloperophoramidine using a highly diastereoselective Hosomi-Sakurai reaction.

The synthesis of dehaloperophoramidine, a non-halogenated derivative of the marine natural product perophoramidine, and its biological activity towards HCT116, HT29 and LoVo colorectal carcinoma cells is reported. A [3,3]-Claisen rearrangement and an epoxide opening/allylsilylation reaction installed the contiguous all-carbon quaternary stereocentres with the required relative stereochemistry.

Studies on the Claisen rearrangements in the indolo[2,3-b]quinoline system.

A study of the effect of substrate structure on a Claisen-aza-Cope reaction is presented including a rationalisation of the reaction outcome using DFT calculations. An asymmetric version of the reaction is also described that is of relevance to a proposed approach to the communesin family of natural products.