Probing the biology of natural products: molecular editing by diverted total synthesis

AM Szpilman, EM Carreira - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
total synthesis, namely the design and synthesis of molecular probes—analogues of the
natural products… of the natural product and ultimately broader questions in biology or medicine. …

Synthesis, molecular editing, and biological assessment of the potent cytotoxin leiodermatolide

D Mailhol, J Willwacher, N Kausch-Busies… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
… It was by way of total synthesis that the issues concerning the … a platform for a first round of
diverted total synthesis. (55) Yet, it … also functionally relevant was probed in the following ways: …

Natural products in the “marketplace”: interfacing synthesis and biology

BJ Huffman, RA Shenvi - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
… as alternative therapeutic agents and biological probes. … target can inspire and guide structure
editing. These data are not … The underlying theory behind natural product total synthesis

Molecular editing and biological evaluation of amphidinolide X and Y

A Fürstner, E Kattnig, G Kelter… - Chemistry–A European …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… well as the biological activity of the resulting compounds. A previous “diverted total synthesis
… In order to probe this possible role, it was planned to replace the α,β-unsaturated ester of 1 …

Synthetic biology to access and expand nature's chemical diversity

MJ Smanski, H Zhou, J Claesen, B Shen… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
editing techniques that enable the assembly of these … is important because if this diversion
is constitutive it slows … and genetic control to probe natural product pathways in new and …

Capturing biological activity in natural product fragments by chemical synthesis

EA Crane, K Gademann - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… “diverted total synthesis”, “chemical or molecular editing”, 5 and “function-oriented synthesis
the limitations of parent natural product structures, such as lack of accessibility or viable …

Late-stage diversification of natural products

B Hong, T Luo, X Lei - ACS central science, 2020 - ACS Publications
… prepare these molecules, including diverted total synthesis (… to lead compounds and natural
product-based probes. Herein, … natural products and the impacts of this approach on organic

Genome-based discovery and total synthesis of janustatins, potent cytotoxins from a plant-associated bacterium

R Ueoka, P Sondermann, S Leopold-Messer, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
molecular mechanics minimization with the Merck molecular … In a mechanism diverting from
the classical assembly line … III spectrometer equipped with a cold probe at 500 MHz and 600 …

Generation of Molecular Shape Diverstiy. From Privileged Scaffolds to Diverted Total Synthesis

WM Dai - Diversity Oriented Synthesis, 2012 - access.portico.org
probes for biological targets or as modulators of disease states. It seems logical for one to
think of the shape of a molecule … These include molecular editing [25], libraries from libraries […

Molecular editing of aza-arene C–H bonds by distance, geometry and chirality

Z Fan, X Chen, K Tanaka, HS Park, NYS Lam, JJ Wong… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
… 50:50 mixture of products at the C3 and C7 positions in 56% total yield (Fig. 3b). This … -selective
modifications in chiral polyol-containing natural products 24,25 , we wondered if a …