Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Multidirectional desymmetrization of pluripotent building block en route to diastereoselective synthesis of complex nature-inspired scaffolds

  • Vunnam Srinivasulu,
  • Paul Schilf,
  • Saleh Ibrahim,
  • Monther A. Khanfar,
  • Scott McN Sieburth,
  • Hany Omar,
  • Anusha Sebastian,
  • Raed A. AlQawasmeh,
  • Matthew John O’Connor,
  • Taleb H. Al-Tel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07521-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Methods enabling the synthesis of diverse collections of nature-inspired compounds with potential medicinal use are sought after in drug design. Here, the authors report a build/couple/pair strategy to efficiently construct chiral polycyclic scaffolds and show their diversification for drug discovery screening.