A concise route to virginiamycin M2.

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Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Cardiovascular Reseach Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States.

Published: June 2019


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Modular, fully synthetic routes to structurally complex natural products provide useful avenues to access chemical diversity. Herein we report a concise route to virginiamycin M2, a member of the group A streptogramin class of natural products that inhibits bacterial protein synthesis. Our approach features a longest linear sequence of six steps from 7 simple building blocks, and is the shortest and highest yielding synthesis of any member of the streptogramin class reported to date. We believe this route will enable access to unexplored structural diversity and may serve as a useful tool to improve the therapeutic potential of the streptogramin class of antibiotics.

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