120th General Meeting of the KCS

Type Symposium
Area Current Trends in Organic Chemistry III: New Reactions and Methodology
Room No. Room 304+305+306
Time FRI 15:30-:
Code ORGN3-3
Subject Biosynthetically Inspired Total Syntheses of Complex Natural Products
Authors Sunkyu Han
Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Abstract Despite an extensive history of natural products total synthesis, devising efficient synthetic strategies for complex secondary metabolites is still intellectually daunting and toilsome. As one means to facilitate the retrosynthetic endeavor, chemists have sought inspiration from the biosynthesis of natural products. We show how structural analysis of biosynthetically relevant natural products and the biosynthetic hypothesis of structurally relevant secondary metabolites can provide hints for the design of synthetic routes. We showcase the viability of this general approach by presenting total syntheses recently completed in our laboratory.1 References 1. (a) Jo, D.; Han, S. Org. Chem. Front. 2017, 4, 506. (b) Jeon, S.; Han, S. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 6302. (c) Kang, T.; Jo, D.; Han, S. J. Org. Chem. 2017, ASAP.
E-mail sunkyu.han@kaist.ac.kr