Abstract：
:2,5-Disubstituted tetrahydrofurans constitute the core skeleton of several natural products and are pivotal synthetic analogues of medicinal importance that exhibit remarkable bioactivities. Oxasqualenoid natural products are implicated as potent biologically active molecules, particularly with regard to demonstrating significant cytotoxicity. Characteristic features of oxasqualenoids containing tetrahydrofuran fragments include the presence of a cis- and/or trans-2,5-disubstituted pattern in tetrahydrofuran moieties, and molecular symmetry is often noticed as well. Given their unique structural features combined with their bioactivity, two representative examples from this class of natural products, eurylene and teurilene, have been briefly reviewed. Eurylene, with reported cytotoxicity against lymphocytic leukemia, contains two non-adjacent linked cis- and trans-2,5-disubstituted tetrahydrofuran rings and a combined total of eight stereogenic centres. It is a chiral molecule due to the lack of a C2 axis of symmetry. Teurilene shows a prominent cytotoxicity on KB cells and has three adjacently linked 2,5-disubstituted tetrahydrofurans. A distinctive achiral facet is observed in teurilene, despite having eight stereocentres, due to the presence of meso symmetry (Cs). The prime objective of this account is to describe a precise mechanistic insight for both cis- and trans-2,5-disubstituted tetrahydrofurans present in these natural products and to highlight the exciting challenges encountered during the installation of functionalities or structural motifs en route to their synthetic approaches.
journal_name
Nat Prod Repjournal_title
Natural product reportsauthors
Sheikh NSdoi
10.1039/c4np00029csubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-09-01 00:00:00pages
1088-100issue
9eissn
0265-0568issn
1460-4752journal_volume
31pub_type
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