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Jean-Yves Wach

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Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products

Jean-Yves Wach

This thesis is divided in four independent parts related to four different research projects. Each chapter describes one of the multiple aspects covered by organic chemistry, such as the generation of functional interfaces, understanding of biological proc ...

EPFL2011

Anguinomycins and Derivatives: Total Syntheses, Modeling, and Biological Evaluation of the Inhibition of Nucleocytoplasmic Transport

Karl Gademann, Simone Bonazzi, Jean-Yves Wach, Ivo Zemp

The preparation of the polyketide natural products anguinomycin C and D is reported based on key steps such as Negishi stereoinversion cross coupling, Jacobsen Cr(III)-catalyzed Hetero Diels−Alder reaction, Evans B-mediated syn-aldol chemistry, and B-alkyl ...

2010

Synthetic Studies on the Sporolides: Exploration of the Enediyne Route

Karl Gademann, Simone Bonazzi, Jean-Yves Wach, Cindy Fellay, Massimo Binaghi

Synthetic studies towards the construction of the cyclopenta[a]indene fragment of the heptacyclic marine metabolite sporolide are reported based on a hypothetical biosynthesis. The key step of this biogenetic proposal includes a Bergman cyclization of an e ...

2010

The cytotoxic styryl lactone goniothalamin is an inhibitor of nucleocytoplasmic transport

Karl Gademann, Jean-Yves Wach

An in vivo nuclear export assay (immunostaining of Rio2 in HeLa cells) demonstrated that (R)-goniothalamin is an inhibitor of nucleocytoplasmic transport above 500 nM, which was rationalized also by molecular modeling. The cytotoxic styryl lactone natural ...

2010

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This review describes the design, synthesis and evaluation of novel catechol based anchors for surface modification. The anachelin chromophore, the catecholate fragment of the siderophore anachelin from the cyanobacterium Anabaena cylindrica, allows for th ...

Springer Netherlands2009

The sporolide quinone acid is a key fragment in the biosynthesis of the complex heptacyclic marine metabolite sporolide. We report a concise enantioselective route to this fragment, which is obtained in seven steps with 65% overall yield from trimethoxyben ...

2009

Antimicrobial Surfaces through Natural Product Hybrids

Karl Gademann, Simone Bonazzi, Jean-Yves Wach

The power of two! A natural product hybrid (see structure) composed of a siderophore and an antibiotic separated by a poly(ethylene glycol) linker enables the preparation of antimicrobial and cell-resistant surfaces by a simple dip-and-rinse procedure. The ...

2008

Protein-Resistant Surfaces through Mild Dopamine Surface Functionalization

Karl Gademann, Simone Bonazzi, Jean-Yves Wach

The synthesis and evaluation of new dopamine-based catechol anchors coupled to poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) for surface modification of TiO2 are reported. Dopamine is modified by dimethylamine-methylene or trimethylammonium- methylene groups, and the prepar ...

2008