Janine Cossy & Stellios Arseniyadis 
Modern Tools for the Synthesis of Complex Bioactive Molecules 

All the latest tools needed to plan and perform the synthesis
of complex bioactive molecules

Focusing on organic, organometallic, and bio-oriented processes,
this book explores the impact and use of the latest synthetic tools
for the synthesis of complex biologically active compounds. Readers
will discover step by step how these synthetic tools have provided
new, elegant solutions to many synthetic puzzles. Moreover, they
will discover innovative methods that make it possible to control
the exact connectivity of atoms within a molecule in order to set
precise three-dimensional arrangements.

Modern Tools for the Synthesis of Complex Bioactive
Molecules features sixteen chapters, each one written by one or
more leading experts in organic synthesis from around the world. It
covers a broad range of topics that enable readers to take
advantage of the latest methods for synthesizing complex molecules,
including:

* Modern catalysis, emphasizing key transformations such as C-H
functionalizations, cross-couplings, gold-catalyzed reactions,
metathesis-based syntheses, and asymmetric organocatalysis

* Eco-compatible transformations, including rearrangements and
domino reactions

* Tools for the synthesis of carbohydrates and alkaloids

* New techniques, including the use of fluorous tags and
engineered biosynthesis

The last two chapters explore target- and diversity-oriented
organic synthesis as well as the use of DNA-based asymmetric
catalysis, which are all promising tools for the successful
synthesis of complex bioactive molecules.

Modern Tools for the Synthesis of Complex Bioactive
Molecules is ideal for students and researchers who need to
plan and perform the synthesis of complex molecules as efficiently
as possible. The book’s expert advice will help these readers
quickly resolve a broad range of problems that can arise in organic
syntheses.

Table of Content

FOREWORD vii

PREFACE ix

CONTRIBUTORS xi

CHAPTER 1 C-H FUNCTIONALIZATION: A NEW STRATEGY FOR THE
SYNTHESIS OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE NATURAL PRODUCTS 1

Sophie Rousseaux, Benoy^t Lie´gault, and Keith
Fagnou

CHAPTER 2 THE NEGISHI CROSS-COUPLING IN THE SYNTHESIS OF NATURAL
PRODUCTS AND BIOACTIVE MOLECULES 33

Evelina Colacino, Jean Martinez, and Fre´de´ric
Lamaty

CHAPTER 3 METAL-CATALYZED C-HETEROATOM CROSS-COUPLING
REACTIONS 77

Renata Marcia de Figueiredo, Jean Marc Campagne, and Damien
Prim

CHAPTER 4 GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES IN THE SYNTHESIS OF NATURAL
PRODUCTS AND BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS 111

Fabien Gagosz

CHAPTER 5 METATHESIS-BASED SYNTHESIS OF COMPLEX BIOACTIVES
155

Jean-Alexandre Richard, Sin Yee Ng, and David Y.-K. Chen

CHAPTER 6 ENANTIOSELECTIVE ORGANOCATALYSIS: A POWERFUL TOOL FOR
THE SYNTHESIS OF BIOACTIVE MOLECULES 189

Mitsuru Shoji and Yujiro Hayashi

CHAPTER 7 ASYMMETRIC PHASE-TRANSFER CATALYSIS 213

Seiji Shirakawa, Shin A. Moteki, and Keiji Maruoka

CHAPTER 8 REARRANGEMENTS IN NATURAL PRODUCT SYNTHESIS 243

Jose´ Marco-Contelles and Elena Soriano

CHAPTER 9 DOMINO REACTIONS IN THE ENANTIOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF
BIOACTIVE NATURAL PRODUCTS 271

Lutz F. Tietze, Scott G. Stewart, and Alexander
Du¨fert

CHAPTER 10 FLUOROUS LINKER-FACILITATED SYNTHESIS OF BIOLOGICALLY
INTERESTING MOLECULES 335

Wei Zhang

CHAPTER 11 THE EVOLUTION OF IMMOBILIZED REAGENTS AND THEIR
APPLICATION IN FLOW CHEMISTRY FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOUNDS 359

Rebecca M. Myers, Kimberley A. Roper, Ian R. Baxendale, and
Steven V. Ley

CHAPTER 12 SYNTHETIC APPROACHES TO BIOACTIVE CARBOHYDRATES
395

Xavier Guinchard, Se´bastien Picard, and David
Crich

CHAPTER 13 AMMONIUM YLIDES AS BUILDING BLOCKS FOR ALKALOID
SYNTHESIS 433

Scott Bur and Albert Padwa

CHAPTER 14 PRECURSOR-DIRECTED BIOSYNTHESIS OF POLYKETIDE AND
NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE NATURAL PRODUCTS 485

Colin J. B. Harvey and Chaitan Khosla

CHAPTER 15 TARGET-ORIENTED AND DIVERSITY-ORIENTED ORGANIC
SYNTHESIS 513

Raphae¨l Rodriguez

CHAPTER 16 DNA AS A TOOL FOR MOLECULAR DISCOVERY 539

Michael Smietana, Jean-Jacques Vasseur, Janine Cossy, and
Stellios Arseniyadis

INDEX 557

About the author

JANINE COSSY graduated from the University of Reims
working under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Pierre Pète. After
a postdoctoral stay with Prof. Barry Trost (1980-1982) at the
University of Wisconsin, she returned to Reims where she became
Director of Research of the CNRS in 1990. The same year, she moved
to Paris to become Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Ecole
Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville
de Paris (ESPCI Paris Tech). She has published over 380 articles and
filed thirteen patents in the field of synthetic organic chemistry
and natural product synthesis. She is Associate Editor at
Organic Letters since 2005.

STELLIOS ARSENIYADIS was born in Greece in 1975. He
studied chemistry at the Université Paris XI and received his
Ph D in 2002 from the Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg,
France) working under the guidance of Dr. Charles Mioskowski. In
2001, he joined Rhodia Chi Rex (Boston, USA) for an eighteen-month
internship in collaboration with Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald (MIT,
USA). He then spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Imperial
College London (UK) working under the supervision of Prof. Alan C.
Spivey, after which he joined Prof. K. C. Nicolaou’s group at The
Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, USA) for an additional
postdoc. In 2005, he was appointed by the CNRS as Chargé de
Recherche in Prof. Janine Cossy’s group. His research interests
include the development of new synthetic tools and their
application to the total synthesis of complex natural products.