Synthesis of Pandaroside D from Pandaros acanthifolium via Construction of a Rare Enone System in the Steroid D Ring.

Authors

Karol Michalak, Robert Bujok, Piotr Cmoch, Jacek Mlynarski

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Organic letters. Aug 26, 2025. Epub Aug 26, 2025.

Abstract

All marine saponins isolated from Pandaros acanthifolium feature a unique and distinctive enone system located in the D ring and an unusual cis-C/D ring junction, presenting an intriguing yet unattained synthetic challenge. The first total synthesis of pandaroside D (1) and its methyl ester (2) was achieved from commercially available dehydroisoandrosterone acetate (DHEA). A notable feature of this synthesis is direct oxidation of the C-15 position promoted by the Davis reagent. This concept was applied despite the negative results of such an attempt described in the literature and confirmed the possibility of using the reagent in the direct construction of the enone system in ring D. For the final step, the reaction with sugar trichloroacetimidate proved unpromising; however, glycosylation of synthesized aglycone was successfully achieved using the classical Koenigs-Knorr variant with methyl 2,3,4-tri-O-acetyl-β-d-glucuronate bromide.

PMID:
40855917
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 26 Aug 2025.

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