Abstract

The ex-chiral pool synthesis of the Theodorakis C3-C11 fragment of borrelidin (I) by a chemoenzymic approach in nine steps and 12 \% overall yield starting from enantiopure methyl-branched preen gland wax esters is described. In the initial reaction, the wax ester II was (ω-1)-hydroxylated regioselectively by using a mutant of the cytochrome P 450 monooxygenase CYP102A1 as biocatalyst. The fourth stereocenter in the C3-C11 fragment III was generated by chiral auxiliary mediated alkylation. In order to explain the exptl. results of the alternative epimerization of an all-syn polypropionate, quantum chem. calcns. were performed at the B3LYP/cc-pVDZ level. [on SciFinder(R)]

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