Takahashi Keisuke, Matsumura Takashi, Corbin Graeme R M, Ishihara Jun, Hatakeyama Susumi
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan.
J Org Chem. 2006 May 26;71(11):4227-31. doi: 10.1021/jo060410r.
Neodysiherbaine A, a neuroexitotoxin occurring in a Micronesian marine sponge Dysidea herbacea, was synthesized from tri-O-acetyl-D-glucal with excellent stereocontrol. The method established enables us to obtain gram quantities of neodysiherbaine A and its related compounds.