1. Concise Total Synthesis and Antifungal Activities of Fusaric Acid, a Natural Product.
- Author
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Huang BB, Liu YY, Zhu PF, Jiang YC, and Ouyang MA
- Subjects
- Antifungal Agents chemical synthesis, Antifungal Agents chemistry, Antifungal Agents pharmacology, Fungi growth & development, Fusaric Acid chemical synthesis, Fusaric Acid chemistry, Fusaric Acid pharmacology, Plant Diseases microbiology
- Abstract
The total synthesis of a natural product alkaloid fusaric acid (FA), which exhibits herbicide, fungicide, insecticide and even diverse notable pharmacological activities, was accomplished in four steps using commercially available materials. The synthesis, based on a unified and flexible strategy using 6-bromonicotinaldehyde as a common intermediate, is concise, convergent, practical and can be carried out on a two-gram scale. This approach could be readily applicable to the synthesis of its analogues. In addition, FA had a wide range of inhibitory activities against 14 plant pathogenic fungi in this study, which demonstrated that as a leading compound, and it has great potential to be further developed as an agricultural fungicide.
- Published
- 2020
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