This thesis describes the efforts towards the synthesis of the guaiane-6,12-olide skeleton, which characterises the guaianolide family of bioactive natural compounds. Two approaches have been investigated: the intramolecular hetero Diels Alder (IMHDA) reaction and the intramolecular carbonyl ene reaction. This thesis has been divided in three sections: the first part gives a general background about the guaianolides, the second section describes the synthetic approaches we investigated and, finally, the third section reports the experimental details. The first section gives a brief overview about the biosynthesis, the biological activities of the guaianolides, and the most interesting synthetic approaches to obtain them. The second section describes the two different approaches we investigated and gives a theoretical background about the main chemical transformations used. At first, the IMHDA reaction approach is described: a brief overview of palladium catalysis and Diels Alder reaction is given, and it is followed by the results and discussion of our study. Similarly, a theoretical background of the Alder ene reaction is given, before the results and discussion of the intramolecular carbonyl ene reaction approach are described: particular importance is given to the reasoning that led to the assignment of the relative configuration of the cycloadducts obtained, and to the rationalisation of this stereochemical outcome. Finally, the third section gives a complete description of the experimental procedures followed, and of the experimental data for the synthetic studies performed in the previous chapter.

Les huiles végétales et leurs dérivés ont conduit à de nouveaux précurseurs agro-ressourcés utilisés pour la synthèse de polymères. Grâce au couplage thiol-ène, des polyols ont été obtenus par greffage du mercaptoéthanol directement sur les triglycérides insaturés. De la même manière, les esters méthyliques des huiles végétales ont permis la synthèse d'esters et d'amides diols pseudo-téléchéliques. Des polyols ont également été obtenus grâce à la réaction d'ouverture des cycles oxirane présents sur des huiles végétales époxydées. Différents acides carboxyliques ont permis d'introduire des fonctions hydroxyle sur les triglycérides. Ces différents synthons ont conduit à l'élaboration d'une large gamme de matériaux polyuréthanes, présentant des Tg variant de -10 °C à 100 °C. Le carbonate de glycérol, issu du glycérol agro-ressourcé, a également été utilisé pour l'élaboration de dicyclocarbonates, soit par estérification/trans-estérification à partir de diacides obtenus par greffage de l'acide thioglycolique sur plusieurs acides gras, soit par dimérisation à partir d'un dithiol commercial. Des polyuréthanes sans isocyanate ont ainsi été formulés à partir de ces nouveaux dicyclocarbonates, ouvrant la voie vers des polyhydroxyuréthanes totalement agro-ressourcés. Les précurseurs, ainsi que les matériaux qui en découlent, ont été caractérisés et certains ont fait l'objet de tests à l'échelle pré-industrielle. / Vegetable oils and their derivatives were used to synthesize new precursors suitable for polymer synthesis. Mercaptoethanol was grafted onto unsaturated triglycerides by thiol-ene coupling to yield polyols. This functionalization was also applied to vegetable oil methyl esters, yielding ester and amide containing pseudo-telechelic diols. The second synthetic strategy used ring opening of epoxydized vegetable oils. The reaction between vegetable oil oxiranes and several carboxylic acids afforded a range of polyester polyols. Thus, the synthesized intermediates allowed to formulate various polyurethanes, which exhibited glass transition temperatures ranging from -10 °C to 100 °C. Moreover, either esterification/trans-esterification with fatty acid based diacids, synthesized by thioglycolic acid addition onto different fatty acids, or thiol-ene coupling with a commercial dithiol, were performed on glycerin carbonate, leading to new dicyclocarbonates. Isocyanate free polyurethanes were then obtained from those dicyclocarbonates, opening the way for fully biobased polyhydroxyurethanes. The new precursor, and the polymers therefrom, were deeply characterized and some of them were tested at a pilot scale.

Les bambusurils, BU[4] et BU[6], sont des oligomères cycliques apparentés aux cucurbiturils, CBs, constitués respectivement de 4 et 6 motifs glycolurils. Les bambusurils diffèrent des CBs par la présence de glycolurils difonctionnalisés.Les BU[6] ont la capacité d'encapsuler des anions dans leur cavité, propriété intéressante pour la décontamination d'effluents, par exemple.Une nouvelle famille de bambusurils, les allylbambusurils, qui possèdent des groupements allyles sur leur portail macrocyclique, a été développée. Leur post-fonctionnalisation par oxydation, métathèse croisée ou réaction thiol-ène a été étudiée. Par réaction thiol-ène, des BU[4] et BU[6], fonctionnalisés respectivement par 8 ou 12 thiols d'intérèt, ont été obtenus. Les BU[6] sont toujours isolés avec un halogènure à l’intérieur de leur cavité. Une méthode utilisant l’hexafluoroantimonate d’argent a été mise au point pour les décomplexer. L'affinité de ces nouveaux BU[6] exempts d'anion, pour différents halogénures, a été évaluée par RMN 1H.Des glycobambusurils ont été synthétisés par réaction thiol-ène en présence de sucres fonctionnalisés par des thiols. Ces glycoBUs donnent accès à des plateformes multivalentes de valence 8 pour les BU[4] et 12 pour les BU[6]. Le pouvoir inhibiteur de ces nouvelles plateformes a été testé sur l'enzyme WaaC, une heptosyltransferase présente dans la paroi bactérienne. Les tests enzymatiques montrent que ces glycobambusurils sont des plateformes multivalentes prometteuses. / Bambusurils, BU[4] and BU[6] are cyclic oligomers that belong to the cucurbiturils family, CBs, assembled respectively by 4 and 6 glycoluril units. Bambusurils are different from cucurbiturils because of their difunctionalized glycolurils. BU[6] are able to encapsulate anions inside their cavity and this property can be useful for the treatment of effluents.A new family of BUs, the allylbambusurils having allyls groups on their macrocyclic portal, has been developed. Their postfunctionalization by oxidation, cross metathesis and thiol-ene coupling has been studied. BU[4] and BU[6] functionalized by respectively 8 and 12 thiols of interest have been prepared.BU[6] are always obtained with an halide inside the cavity. A method using silver hexafluoroantimonate has been developed to remove this halide. Binding constants of these new empty bambusurils have been determined towards severals halide by 1H NMR.Glycobambusurils have been synthesized by thiol- ene coupling with thiosugars. These glycoBUs can lead to multivalent platforms of valency up to 8 for BU[4] and 12 for BU[6]. Inhibition activity of these new platforms has been tested on WaaC enzyme, an heptosyltransferase found in bacterial cell wall. Enzymatic tests show that these glycobambusurils are promising multivalent platforms.

With the ambition to decrease the utilization of fossil fuels, a development of those raw materials that today only are seen as waste products is necessary. One of those waste products is turpentine. Turpentine is the largest natural source of terpenes in the world today. The main components are the terpenes α-pinene, β-pinene and 3-carene.  In this project, different polymerisation techniques have been evaluated to polymerise limonene with the aim to make a material out of the green raw material, turpentine. Limonene is a terpene that can be found in turpentine. It has a planar structure and should work as a model for other terpenes.   Previous work on polymerising terpenes has focused on succeeding with performing polymerisations of terpenes utilizing the techniques of cationic polymerisation and radical polymerisation. However, this has been done without the aim to make a material out of the polymers. In this project, on the other hand, the main focus has been to obtain a polymer that can be used as a basis for a material. Techniques that have been applied are: radical polymerisation, cationic polymerisation and thiol-ene polymerisation.  In this study, attempts to homopolymerise limonene and also copolymerise it with other synthetic monomers, such as styrene, have been performed with both radical polymerisation and cationic polymerisation. The procedure for the radical polymerisation has been conducted following the work by Sharma and Srivastava. [1] Even though several articles have been published about radical copolymerisations of limonene with other synthetic monomers, the radical polymerisations have not succeeded in this project. Further, the technique of thiol-ene chemistry has shown that limonene can be used in polymerisations; limonene reacts spontaneously with 2-mercaptoethyl ether forming a viscous polymer. The obtained polymers have been characterized with proton nuclear magnetic resonance(1H-NMR), size exclusion chromatography (SEC), matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectroscopy (MALDI-TOF MS), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and Raman spectroscopy.

UV-curing is one of the most commonly used methods for producing hydrogels for soft and hard tissue scaffolds. Spontaneous curing is an alternative method which possesses some advantages in comparison to the conventional UV-curing methods; for example, in situ crosslinking and excluding initiators. The main objective of this study was to investigate promising materials for producing UV and spontaneously cured hydrogels, and subsequently to perform a comparison between the produced hydrogels with regard to their different mechanical and physical properties.Seventeen different hydrogels including five UV-cured and twelve spontaneously cured hydrogels were produced by applying thiol-ene chemistry and by varying precursor materials. Hydrogel systems including di- and tetra- functional PEGs of different lengths (2 kDa and 6 kDa) and two different thiol-crosslinkers (ETTMP 1300 Da and DTT) were subsequently characterized and evaluated. The evaluation tests applied in this study were Raman spectroscopy, weight and volumetric swelling test, leaching test, tensile test, and rheology test. Between all the systems, tetra-acrylated PEG (6 kDa) BisMPA was found to be the most promising system. The pH level of the applied solvent (PBS) for spontaneously cured hydrogels was varied from the physiologically relevant level of 7.4 to 7.0 and 7.8 in order to investigate the dependency of physical and mechanical properties of the hydrogels to this parameter.Spontaneous curing of tetra-acrylated PEG (6 kDa) BisMPA with ETTMP 1300 Da as the thiol-crosslinker, was accomplished within 3½ min in PBS with a pH level of 7.4; and it came out to be the fastest spontaneously cured system between all the tested hydrogels. Increasing the PBS pH level resulted in a faster curing process (accomplished in 1½ min). Spontaneously cured hydrogels generally showed decreased mechanical properties, but improved swelling behavior compared to UV-cured hydrogels. Nevertheless, the discussed system still possessed 50% of the elastic modulus in the tensile test in comparison to the UV-cured state; and showed the highest elastic modulus in comparison to other spontaneously cured systems. The storage modulus of the mentioned hydrogel in the spontaneously cured state was very close to the same parameter in the UV-cured hydrogel based on the same precursors. It also possessed the highest storage modulus between all the spontaneously cured hydrogels. Although the obtained swelling properties of this system were not the highest between all the tested hydrogels, these parameters were still in an acceptable range as for a hydrogel proposed for tissue scaffold application (swelling ratio: 9.72, water content: 89.71%, volumetric swelling ratio: 9.05). Furthermore, the system had the lowest weight loss ratio between all the acrylate-based hydrogels (including both UV and spontaneously cured systems), which along with the Raman spectroscopy results shows the high crosslinking efficiency of the system.

Four ethylene bis-indenyl ligands containing tethers of various lengths were successfully immobilized on the surface of functionalized silica gel. The strategy of immobilization was based on catalytic thiol-ene coupling of terminal alkene groups in the tethers with surface thiol groups. Obtained materials have high BET surface area and pore volume. The method developed can be used for immobilization of catalytically active bis-indenyl metallocene complexes, thus preventing their dimerization and deactivation.

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SUMMARY The moenomycin-type compounds are known to inhibit selectively the enzyme penicillin binding protein 1b (PBP 1b) that catalyses the transglycosylation reaction in the biosynthesis of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan. The moenomycins (see moenomycin A12) have been shown to interfere with this biosynthetic step interacting with the enzyme(s). The moenomycins do not induce resistance readily. A weak point in this respect may, however, be the phosphate bond to unit F. Its cleavage by a yet poorly characterized enzyme is the only enzymatic degradation reaction of the moenomycins that is known to-date. With this in mind we started a programme aimed at synthesizing trisaccharide analogues of moenomycin A12 in which the phosphate oxygen at C-1 of unit F is replaced by a CH2 group. It seemed important to retain all other functional groups in ring F as present in moenomycin since they are known to be of major importance as far as antibiotic activity is concerned. It appeared that the commercially available and cheap b-D-galactose-pentaacetate 30 would be an interesting starting material for this synthesis. In this work, the synthesis began with the introduction of the C-glycoside appendage at position 1 according to Giannis et al., thus forming the allyl C-galactopyranoside 34, a substance that represents the first C-glycosyl backbone for the synthesis of the glycosyl acceptors. The total synthesis of the glycosyl acceptors is shown in Scheme 6.1. We wanted to convert the C-allyl glycoside 34 into its propenyl analogue. Attempts to achieve this with singlet oxygen and palladium-mediated reaction proved fruitless. On the other hand, ene reaction of 34 with 4-phenyltriazolin-3,5-dione in CH2Cl2 provided 56 in 83 % yield. Ozonolysis of this alkene (-70 °C, MeOH-CH2Cl2) and subsequent quenching with dimethyl sulfide, followed by reduction of the crude aldehyde with sodium acetoxyborohydride (prepared from NaBH4 and AcOH in THF) furnished the primary alcohol 35 (85 %). This alcohol was converted into the mesylate 60 (60 %), and this in turn into the bromide 61 (80 %) by heating it at 80 °C with tetrabutylammonium bromide in toluene. The acetate groups were hydrolysed using Zemplén conditions to furnish 62 quantitatively. The primary hydroxyl group in 62 was protected as a tBuPh2Si ether 63 (85 %) on reaction with TBDPSCl in DMF at 0 °C, and as a tBuMe2Si ether 94 (87 %) on reaction with TBDMSCl in DMF at 0 °C in the presence of imidazole. PTScatalysed isopropylidenation of the 3,4-diols 63 and 94 with 2,2-dimethoxypropane in dry acetone gave the 3,4-O-acetonide derivatives 53 (88 %) and 95 (90 %), respectively. On the other hand, the glycosyl acceptor 53 was converted into the glycosyl acceptor 92. The free hydroxyl group in compound 53 was protected as an acetate group on reaction with acetic anhydride in pyridine in the presence of DMAP giving 89 (88 %). The silyl ether in 89 was cleaved with a molar solution of TBAF in THF affording compound 90 in 87 % yield. The free hydroxyl group in 90 was then subjected to an oxidation using the TEMPO method affording the aldehyde which was in turn oxidised with sodium chlorite to the corresponding acid. The acid was converted to the amide 91, making use of Staab''s method, in which the acid was activated with CDI in dichloromethane to give the imidazolide, which upon reaction with ammonia furnished the amide 91 in an overall yield of 95 %. The required glycosyl acceptor 92 was obtained in quantitative yield by cleavage of the ester bond at position 5 under Zemplén conditions. Disaccharide formation was achieved employing the Jacquinet and Blatter method, which involves the use of glycosyl donor 67 and TMSOTf. No reaction was observed between this donor and acceptor 92, which may reflect the low nucleophilicity of the acceptor. On the contrary, glycosylation with acceptor 53 gave 68 (79 %). Deprotection of the silyl group in the disaccharide 68 was easily accomplished on treatment with a molar solution of TBAF in THF at RT affording 71 (89 %). Synthesis of the uronamide 72 was achieved after three major steps, in an overall yield of 98 %. Oxidation of the primary hydroxyl group in unit F to the corresponding aldehyde was accomplished with sodium hypochlorite and TEMPO. Oxidation of the crude aldehyde to the carboxylic acid with sodium chlorite followed by amide formation according to Staab gave 72. Removal of the isopropylidene group from 72 with trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) at RT furnished the diol 73 (89 %). Introduction of the carbamoyl group at C-4F position was achieved in two steps. Conversion of the diol 73 into the cyclic carbonate 76 with CDI in CH2Cl2 (84 %) and subsequent ring opening of this carbonate by bubbling a stream of gaseous ammonia into the CH2Cl2 solution at 0 °C gave 74 (62 %) as well as its isomer 77 (21 %). Dehalogenation of the N-trichloroacetyl group was intensively studied, but interactions of other functional groups in the studied substances could not be avoided. The base-labile carbonate in 76 and the carbamoyl group in urethane 74 were cleaved under the reaction conditions. Hydrolysis of 76 with 0.5 M LiOH in MeOH-THF (1:1) followed by acetylation gave 80 (73 %), while its reduction with NaBH4 in ethanol followed by acetylation gave 82 (60 °C, 85 %; RT, 83 %). On the other hand, reduction of 74 with NaBH4 in ethanol at 60 °C followed by acetylation gave 82 (78 %), while performing the reduction step at 5 °C (THF-MeOH 4:1) or at RT (ethanol or isopropanol) gave 80 in an average yield of 65 %. In a non reproducible reaction (NaBH4, EtOH, RT, then Ac2O, pyridine, RT), the desired compound 83 (42 %) was obtained accompanied by 82 (46 %) The reaction between the N-trichloroacetyl group and NaBH3CN was also fruitless. The phosphonate grouping was installed making use of Arbuzov reaction furnishing 85 (70 %). Trisaccharides could not be obtained from the oxazoline donor 42 (prepared from chitobiose octaacetate 86) through its reaction with acceptor 53. There was also no coupling product between the recently synthesized donor 88 and the acceptor 92. However, in this work, trisaccharide formation was achieved through the glycosylation reaction of donor 88 and acceptor 95 in 50 % yield (-30 °C, 1,2-dichloroethane, 3 Å, TMSOTf-TEA). Selective deprotection of the TBDMS group in compound 96 was accomplished at -10 °C with 1 eq of a molar solution of TBAF in THF. The free hydroxyl group of 97 was subjected to an oxidation using the TEMPO method affording the aldehyde. After oxidation of the aldehyde with sodium chlorite, the resulting carboxylic acid was converted according to Staab''s method into the amide 93 in an overall yield of 95 % (based on 96). There were difficulties in converting the N-phthalimido group in 93 to the N-acetyl group which is necessary for biological activity of moenomycin-type compounds, since the reactions were accompanied by elimination of HBr. In conclusion, the synthetic methods employed in this work allow to prepare the di- and trisaccharides C-phosphonate analogues of moenomycin A12. / Synthese von Phosphonat-Analoga des Antibiotikums Moenomycin A12 Universität Leipzig, Dissertation Diese Arbeit enthält 130 Seiten, 73 Abbildungen, 1 Tabelle, 156 Literaturangaben Referat: Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden C-Glycosid-Di- und Trisaccharid-Bausteine des Antibiotikums Moenomycin A12 ausgehend von b-D-Galactose-pentaacetat hergestellt. Das Ausgangmaterial wurde in D-Galactoheptonamid übergeführt. Die Einheit F des Disaccharidbausteins hat alle Substituenten, die die Einheit F des Moenomycins A12 hat. Der ausgearbeitete Syntheseweg sollte zur Synthese anderer Analoga geeignet sein.

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