Ocellatuspyrones A‒G,new antibacterial polypropionates from the Chinese mollusk Placobranchus ocellatus

Marine invertebrates serve as rich sources of secondary metabolites with intriguing chemical diversities and a wide spectrum of biological activities.Particularly,marine shell-less sacoglossan mollusks have attracted much attentions due to the fact that mollusks apply complex metabolites as chemical defense agents against to their predators.With the purpose of discovering bioactive secondary metabolites to develop marine-derived medicines from the South China Sea,we have conducted a chemical study on the photosynthetic mollusk Placobranchus ocellatus.As a result,seven newγ-pyrone polypropionates,namely(±)-ocellatuspyrone A(1),(±)-ocellatuspyrone B(2),and ocellatuspyrones C−G(5,9−12),along with fve known polypropionates,have been isolated and characterized from the South China Sea photosynthetic mollusk Placobranchus ocellatus.Extensive spectroscopic analysis,single crystal X-ray difraction analysis,modifed Mosher’s method,ECD comparison,CD exciton chirality method,TDDFT-ECD calculation,and chemical conversion were used to determine the structures and absolute confgurations of the new compounds and the stereochemistry of undefned known compounds 4,6 and 7.All these isolated polypropionates were evaluated in bioassays for their biological activities,including antibacterial,neuroprotective efect,anti-infammatory,PTP1B inhibitory,and antiviral activities.Compounds 7,8 and 11 were found for the frst time to show antibacterial activity against fsh pathogenic bacteria Streptococcus parauberis(the main pathogen causing fsh streptococcal infections and acute death)with MIC values of 35.8,34.2,and 37.4μg/mL,respectively,which might be potential novel antibacterial agents for the treatment of fsh infectious diseases.

Stereoselective Access to Polypropionates Expedited by the Double Hydroboration of Allenes: Total Synthesis of Antitumor (−)-Pironetin

Polyketides,a large class of secondary metabolites,have been of long-standing interest to the synthetic community due to their intriguing biological activities and structural versatility and complexity.A typical structural unit of various natural products,polypropionate,has prompted enormous efforts in the development of novel synthetic methods and strategies in the past five decades.In this study,a non-aldol-type approach based on double hydroboration of allenes has been developed to provide a powerful method for the stereodivergent construction of various polyol stereotriads and stereotetrads that are amenable for synthesizing polypropionates.The stereochemical control is possibly attributable to the boronate complex that aligned itself as a rigid conformation for the second stereoselective hydroboration reaction by suppressing the barotropic rearrangement of allylborane intermediates.The feasibility of preparing the key polypropionate motif facilitates the efficient synthesis of(-)-pironetin,a potentα-tubulin inhibitor halting the cell cycle at M phase.