Lawrence J. Williams

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Co-reporter:Rojita Sharma and Lawrence J. Williams
Organic Letters 2013 Volume 15(Issue 9) pp:2202-2205
Publication Date(Web):April 25, 2013
DOI:10.1021/ol400749e
Two concise methods for generating oxetan-3-ones from allenes are reported. The first method employs allene epoxidation, opening of the spirodiepoxide by a halide nucleophile, and then intramolecular displacement of a halide by an alkoxide. The second method involves allene epoxidation and then thermal rearrangement of the corresponding spirodiepoxide to oxetan-3-one. The two methods are complementary and stereochemically divergent. Computational analysis of the thermal rearrangement is also described.
Co-reporter:Michael A. Drahl; Madhuri Manpadi; Lawrence J. Williams
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2013 Volume 52( Issue 43) pp:11222-11251
Publication Date(Web):
DOI:10.1002/anie.201209833

Abstract

It has been 60 years since Eschenmoser and Frey disclosed the archetypal CC fragmentation reaction. New fragmentations and several variants of the original quickly followed. Many of these variations, which include the Beckmann, Grob, Wharton, Marshall, and Eschenmoser–Tanabe fragmentations, have been reviewed over the intervening years. A close examination of the origins of fragmentation has not been described. Recently, useful new methods have flourished, particularly fragmentations that give alkynes and allenes, and such reactions have been applied to a range of complex motifs and natural products. This Review traces the origins of fragmentation reactions and provides a summary of the methods, applications, and new insights of heterolytic CC fragmentation reactions advanced over the last 20 years.

Co-reporter:Michael A. Drahl; Madhuri Manpadi; Lawrence J. Williams
Angewandte Chemie 2013 Volume 125( Issue 43) pp:11430-11461
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DOI:10.1002/ange.201209833

Abstract

Sechzig Jahre sind vergangen, seit Eschenmoser und Frey den Archetyp der C-C-Fragmentierung beschrieben. Rasch folgten neue Fragmentierungen und mehrere Varianten des Originals. Viele dieser Variationen, einschließlich der Beckmann-, Grob-, Wharton-, Marshall- und der Eschenmoser-Tanabe-Fragmentierungen, sowie weiteren, wurden im Laufe der Jahre in Übersichten besprochen, eine genaue Untersuchung des Ursprungs von Fragmentierungen steht aber noch aus. Vor kurzem tauchten neue nützliche Methoden auf, insbesondere Fragmentierungen, die zu Alkinen und Allenen führen, und solche Reaktionen wurden auf eine Reihe an komplexen Leitmotiven und Naturstoffe angewendet. Dieser Aufsatz verfolgt die Entwicklung der Fragmentierungen und bietet eine Zusammenfassung der Methoden, Anwendungen und neue Einblicke in heterolytische C-C-Fragmentierungen der letzten zwanzig Jahre.

Co-reporter:Kai Liu ; Hiyun Kim ; Partha Ghosh ; Novruz G. Akhmedov
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2011 Volume 133(Issue 38) pp:14968-14971
Publication Date(Web):September 6, 2011
DOI:10.1021/ja207496p
The complexity and low tractability of antibiotic macrolides pose serious challenges to addressing the problem of resistance through semi- or total synthesis. Here we describe a new strategy involving the preparation of a complex yet tractable macrocycle and the transformation of this macrocycle into a range of erythronolide congeners. These compounds represent valuable sectors of erythromycinoid structure space and constitute intermediates with the potential to provide further purchase in this space. The routes are short. The erythronolides were prepared in three or fewer steps from the macrocycle, which was prepared in a longest linear sequence of 11 steps.
Co-reporter:Michael A. Drahl, Novruz G. Akhmedov, Lawrence J. Williams
Tetrahedron Letters 2011 Volume 52(Issue 2) pp:325-328
Publication Date(Web):12 January 2011
DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2010.11.050
Members of the xenicane superfamily induce a variety of biological responses in vitro. In order to enable a better understanding of the function of these substances, we have developed a strategy that integrates the synthetic routes to many of its members. The core ring systems of the xeniolide, xenibellol, and florlide natural products were constructed stereoselectively from an enantioenriched cyclononadienone. The use of the cyclononadiene scaffold, reagent-controlled transannulations, and the parallels of these transformations to possible biosynthetic pathways of the natural product classes are discussed.
Co-reporter:Sipak Joyasawal, Stephen D. Lotesta, N. G. Akhmedov and Lawrence J. Williams
Organic Letters 2010 Volume 12(Issue 5) pp:988-991
Publication Date(Web):February 2, 2010
DOI:10.1021/ol902984e
The synthesis of a C1−C19 precursor to pectenotoxin 4 is presented. The strategy employed the functionalized allene shown. Key features include: olefin metathesis of two simple fragments to prepare the left portion of the allene-precursor, diastereoselective propargylation of an epoxy aldehyde to form the right portion, use of the DMDO-stable m-fluorobenzyl ether, and an allene spirodiepoxidation/C-ring formation cascade.
Co-reporter:Robert V. Kolakowski ; Madhuri Manpadi ; Yue Zhang ; Thomas J. Emge
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2009 Volume 131(Issue 36) pp:12910-12911
Publication Date(Web):August 25, 2009
DOI:10.1021/ja906189h
A new method of allene synthesis is described. Suitably functionalized vinyl triflates undergo fragmentation to give allenes in high yield. Computational and experimental data provide a mechanistic framework for allene formation and the complementary formation of alkynes. The method is stereospecific.
Co-reporter:Partha Ghosh, Joseph R. Cusick, Jennifer Inghrim and Lawrence J. Williams
Organic Letters 2009 Volume 11(Issue 20) pp:4672-4675
Publication Date(Web):September 21, 2009
DOI:10.1021/ol901948d
A short synthesis of the natural product epi-citreodiol and the method developed to gain access to this target are described. Key advances focus on silyl substituted allenes. Upon exposure to dimethyldioxirane, spirodiepoxides form with high face selectivity and subsequently react at the silyl terminus.
Co-reporter:Partha Ghosh, Yue Zhang, Thomas J. Emge and Lawrence J. Williams
Organic Letters 2009 Volume 11(Issue 19) pp:4402-4405
Publication Date(Web):September 2, 2009
DOI:10.1021/ol901755a
A concise route to functionalized 14-membered macrolides related to erythronolide A was achieved. Key steps include the simultaneous formation of bis[allenic] substrates, efficient macrolactonization, highly stereoselective oxidation to the corresponding bis[spirodiepoxide], and nucleophilic spirodiepoxide opening. The structure and reactivity of these macrolides, and the strategy that led to their evaluation, are discussed.