Total Synthesis of Complex Peptidyl Nucleoside Antibiotics: Asymmetric De Novo Syntheses of Miharamycin B and Its Biosynthetic Precursor

Abstract

Miharamycins belong to a class of peptidyl nucleoside antibiotics with a unique nine-carbon pyranosyl amino acid core and a rare 2-aminopurine moiety. Herein, we report the de novo total synthesis of miharamycin B and its biosynthetic precursor from 3-bromofuran and Garner's aldehyde through a modified Achmatowicz reaction. Many challenges were resolved toward the de novo synthesis of miharamycin B, including the introduction of a dense array of functional groups, the stereoselective construction of consecutive stereocenters, dealing with the variability of the anomeric positions, and promoting site-selectivity in the cyclization to form the tetrahydrofuran ring. This de novo synthesis strategy enables efficient preparation of 3'-substituted saccharides, allowing the study of their structure-activity relationships and mode of action, and meets the growing demand for the development of novel antibiotics inspired by miharamycin natural products.