Resumen de Total synthesis of (+)-Madangamine D
Roberto Ballette
Madangamines are a small group of marine alkaloids isolated from sponges of the order Haplosclerida collected by hand using scuba on reefs off Madang, Papua New Guinea. Madangamine A show significant in vitro cytotoxicity against murine leukemia (P388), human lung (A549), brain (U373) and breast (MCF-7). However, no bioactivity data have been reported for madangamines B-E, and further pharmacological research on this alkaloid group has been prevented by the minute amount of alkaloid samples. We present herein the enantioselective synthesis of (+)-madangamine D, which represents the first total synthesis of an alkaloid of the madangamine group. Using a phenylglycinol-derived bicyclic lactam as the starting enantiomeric scaffold we were able to control the stereochemistry of all three contiguous stereogenic centers on the BC ring system, while A ring was formed through a stereocontrolled cascade aminohydroxylation reaction, in which an “in situ generated” amine attacks an epoxide ring. This strategy provides a direct route to the diazatricyclic ABC core common to all madangamines, with the appropriate functionalization to allow the subsequent building of the macrocyclic D and E rings of these alkaloids. The saturated 14-membered D ring of madangamine D, leading to the tetracyclic ABCD system was efficiently constructed using a ring-closing metathesis reaction followed by a catalytic hydrogenation of the resulting double bond. The (Z,Z)-unsaturated 11-membered E ring, required to complete the synthesis of madangamine D was successfully assembled in a straightforward manner using a Z-stereoselective Wittig reaction followed by an intramolecular macrolactamization. Madangamine D showed significant in vitro cytotoxic activity against human colon HT29 (GI50 4.4 µg/mL) and pancreas PSN1 (GI50 7.4 µg/mL) cancer cell lines, but was inactive against lung NSCLC A549 and breast MDA-MB-231 cancer cell lines at the highest assayed concentration (10 µg/mL).
