doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.10294826.v1 Synthesis of Vitisin A & D: Thermal Isomerization Enabled by a Persistent Radical Equilibrium Kevin Romero, Mitchell Keylor, Markus Griesser, Xu Zhu, Ethan Strobel, Derek Pratt, Corey Stephenson Submitted date: 12/11/2019 • Posted date: 22/11/2019 Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Citation information: Romero, Kevin; Keylor, Mitchell; Griesser, Markus; Zhu, Xu; Strobel, Ethan; Pratt, Derek; et al. (2019): Synthesis of Vitisin A & D: Thermal Isomerization Enabled by a Persistent Radical Equilibrium. ChemRxiv. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.10294826.v1 The total synthesis of oligomer natural products derived from resveratrol has been achieved through a putative biogenetic bond migration from a presumed common intermediate in a divergent biosynthetic pathway. File list (2) Stephenson_manuscript.pdf (820.13 KiB) view on ChemRxiv download file Stephenson_manuscript.docx (416.19 KiB) view on ChemRxiv download file Synthesis of vitisin A & D: Thermal isomerization enabled by a persistent radical equilibrium Kevin J. Romero,1 Mitchell H. Keylor,1 Markus Griesser,2 Xu Zhu,1 Ethan J. Strobel,1 Derek A. Pratt2,* and Corey R. J. Stephenson1,* 1Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, 930 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA 2Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5 E-mail:
[email protected] Abstract: The first total synthesis of the resveratrol tetramers vitisin A and vitisin D is reported. Electrochemical generation and selec-tive dimerization of persistent radicals is followed by thermal isomerization of the symmetric C8b–C8c dimer to the C3c–C8b isomer, providing rapid entry into the vitisin core.