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ArticleNature chemistry2025

Synthesis of diverse terpenoid frameworks via enzyme-enabled abiotic scaffold hop.

Heping Deng, Junhong Yang, Fuzhuo Li, Jian Li, Hans Renata

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Article in Nature chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Heping DengDepartment of Chemistry, BioScience Research Collaborative, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
Junhong YangDepartment of Chemistry, BioScience Research Collaborative, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
Fuzhuo LiDepartment of Natural Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. lifuzhuo@fudan.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-2710-7743
Jian LiFrontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. jianlizcz@sjtu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0003-4461-6686
Hans RenataDepartment of Chemistry, BioScience Research Collaborative, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. hrenata@rice.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2468-2328

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National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award #2325114
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to the structural complexity of natural products, their target-oriented syntheses usually require the design of individualized routes that are tailor-made for the specific targets. As such, route redesign is needed when targets of different skeletal connectivities are considered. Here we report a versatile synthetic strategy that runs counter to this conventional wisdom and allows access to a range of terpenoids with distinct skeletal frameworks from the sesquiterpene lactone sclareolide as the starting material. By viewing a biocatalytically installed alcohol as an exploitable motif rather than a structural endpoint, a number of abiotic skeletal rearrangements were designed, resulting in substantial structural divergence from the original drimane ring system of sclareolide. Using this approach, the syntheses of four terpenoid natural products, namely, merosterolic acid B, cochlioquinone B, (+)-daucene and dolasta-1(15),8-diene, were achieved.

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Biological ProductsTerpenesBiocatalysisMolecular StructureSesquiterpenesBiological ProductsSesquiterpenesTerpenes

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