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Pure Appl. Chem. 75(2-3), 295-308, 2003

Pure and Applied Chemistry

Vol. 75, Issue 2-3

Stereochemical analysis of natural products. Approaches relying on the combination of NMR spectroscopy and computational methods

R. Riccio, G. Bifulco, P. Cimino, C. Bassarello, and L. Gomez-Paloma

Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Salerno, via Ponte Don Melillo, 8408, Fisciano (SA), Italy

Abstract: The stereochemical study of flexible stereogenic carbon chains, such as those of many novel natural products, is a particularly challenging task. Recent applications of our group on the so-called "J-based approach", a methodology relying on a detailed analysis of
homonuclear (H-H) and heteronuclear (C-H) 2,3J couplings, include the study of the sphinxolide family of antitumor macrolides, a group of molecules characterized by a flexible macrocyclic framework bearing a number of oxygenated and methylated undetermined stereocenters, and of ascaulitoxin, a nitrogen-containing phytotoxin with herbicidal activity produced by a phytopathogenic fungus. An extension of the original procedure, relying on a Hartree-Fock (HF) ab initio calculation of conformational equilibrium and an estimate of the Boltzmann averaged 2,3JHH and 2,3JCH couplings, has been applied to the stereochemical study of sapinofuranone A, where the conformational equilibrium among existing rotamers had initially led to controversial results. 13C NMR chemical shifts are additional useful
parameters in the study of complex organic molecules. Along these lines, we have lately proposed the use of Hartree–Fock gauge including atomic orbitals (GIAO) calculated 13C NMR chemical shift values as a supporting tool for the validation of the structure of new natural products and the determination of the relative stereochemistry of diastereomeric flexible compounds that are characterized by multiple conformer equilibria.

*Pure Appl.Chem. 75, 141�419 (2003). An issue of reviews and research papers based on lectures presented at the 23rd IUPAC International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products, Florence, Italy, 28 July � 2 August 2002.


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