Synfacts 2009(9): 0940-0940  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1217611
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
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Synthesis of a Polychlorinated Sulpholipid Cytotoxin

Contributor(s): Philip Kocienski, Indu Dager
C. Nilewski, R. W. Geisser, E. M. Carreira*
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
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Publication History

Publication Date:
21 August 2009 (online)

Significance

The polychlorinated sulpholipid K is a shellfish poison extracted from the digestive glands of contaminated mussels. It is probably a metabolite of microalgae ingested by the mussels and concentrated in their gut. Carreira and co-workers report the first diastereoselective synthesis of a polychlorinated sulpholipid which also confirms the assigned stereochemistry.