Chemistry Letters, Vol.31, No.11, 1098-1099, 2002
Convenient synthesis of the main dehydrohexapeptide skeleton constituting a macrocyclic antibiotic, berninamycin A
The first convenient synthesis of the main dehydrohexapeptide segment of a macrocyclic antibiotic, berninamycin A, containing a 3-hydroxy-L-valine residue and having three vinyl groups and a 1-propenyl group, was accomplished.