Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

DOI

10.1039/D4QO00380B

Publication Title

Organic Chemistry Frontiers

Volume

11

Issue

13

Pages

3729-3776

Abstract

Oxepanes are central motifs and tenants of many biologically important molecules, and their synthetic construction often presents a challenge to chemists due to consequential entropic and enthalpic barriers that have limited the synthetic toolbox to access these seven-membered oxacycles. This review covers the breadth of synthetic methods to afford the oxepane/thiepane moiety, with a focus on polyoxygenated oxepanes and includes radical cyclizations, Lewis acid-mediated cyclizations, ring closing-metathesis, Nicholas-Ferrier rearrangement, homologations, and ring-expansion strategies. Implementation of these tactics towards sugar-based and non-sugar based (de novo) approaches is presented alongside their extensive application to the total synthesis of several complex polyoxygenated oxepane-containing natural products, which are also highlighted.

Rights

© 2024 The Authors.

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License.

Original Publication Citation

Pote, A. R., Weierbach, S. M., Peczuh, M., & Lambert, K. M. (2024). Advancements in the synthesis of polyoxygenated oxepanes and thiepanes for applications to natural products. Organic Chemistry Frontiers,11(13), 3729-3776. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4QO00380B

ORCID

0000-0002-0963-200X (Weierbach), 0000-0002-8230-2840 (Lambert)

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