&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Peloruside A (10) is a marine natural product isolated from the sponge Mycale hentscheli originally found in Pelorus Sound, New Zealand. It has the potential to be used as a new anti-cancer agent as it is active against various cancerous cell lines at nanomolar concentrations though stabilisation of microtubules. Development of peloruside A as a drug has been hindered due to a lack of viable sources of the compound, from either large-scale isolation attempts from the sponge or though total synthesis efforts. Therefore, an alternative was proposed though guided analogue synthesis to simplify the structure in a way that still retains the pharmacophores, identified as the side chain (highlighted in blue) and the pyran (highlighted in yellow) while being more synthetically accessible.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Simple, robust reactions were chosen for the major connections (e.g. forming triazole, ester and amide functional groups) and scaffolding elements (amino acid, 49) were proposed for connection of the pharmacophores to form analogue 47. The unique shape and stereochemistry of the side chain (48) has limited possible new approaches with its synthesis. Instead the proposed synthesis was quite conserved following methodology from previous attempts, namely work undertaken by Taylor.1 The proposed pyran motif differs from that in peloruside A, as it does not have to meet strictly defined binding interactions with the microtubule as much needed for the side chain. As such, a wide variety of synthetic methodology could be considered.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The synthesis of the side chain fragment proved to be quite challenging in both the alkylation that established the stereochemistry of C-18 and the allylation that established the stereochemistry of C 15. Future work will need to focus on overcoming these issues if peloruside A analogues will be produced with this design and at scale. The pyran also had issues in its formation and issues with stereoselectivity, but was generally successful, producing several unique structures. While there were few positive results for hydroxyl-containing pyrans due to unexpected side reactions giving rise to 2,6 dioxabicyclo[3.2.1]octane 261, results with chloride-containing pyrans along with their dehydro chlorinated products (235, 236, 280, 282) led to a deep investigation into the mechanism of Prins pyran cyclisation in this system.&lt;/p&gt; 

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Designing new agents for the peloruside binding site

This study describes the NMR-directed isolation and structural elucidation of several new and semi-synthesised compounds. Carrying on from the previous examinations on the sponge Hamigera tarangaensis undertaken at VUW resulted in the isolation of an additional seven congeners to the hamigeran family. These included three debrominated analogues (37, 60, 62), an alternative methyl ester analogue (63) and a 4-brominated analogue (64). Two structures with novel functionality were also isolated, which were found in fractions previously not investigated, the nitrile containing hamigeran R (61) and the dimer hamigeran S (65). The isolation of these novel compounds led to the proposal of a biosynthesis from a reaction with hamigeran G (40) and ammonia, similar to the previous nitrogenous hamigerans biosynthesis with amino acids.   Semi-synthesis was undertaken to probe the biosynthesis of these and the other nitrogenous compounds. The results of this produced four new compounds: two imine intermediates, hamigeran G imine (66) and hamigeran B imine (70), a glycine derived hamigeran (68) and the hamigeran D epimer (69).

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