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ArticleNature communications2018

Scalable total synthesis and comprehensive structure-activity relationship studies of the phytotoxin coronatine.

Mairi M Littleson, Christopher M Baker, Anne J Dalençon, Elizabeth C Frye, Craig Jamieson, Alan R Kennedy, Kenneth B Ling, Matthew M McLachlan, Mark G Montgomery, Claire J Russell and 1 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Mairi M LittlesonDepartment of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 295 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, G1 1XL, UK.
Christopher M BakerSyngenta, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG42 6EY, UK.
Anne J DalençonSyngenta, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG42 6EY, UK.
Elizabeth C FryeSyngenta, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG42 6EY, UK.
Craig JamiesonDepartment of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 295 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, G1 1XL, UK.
Alan R KennedyDepartment of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, 295 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, G1 1XL, UK.
Kenneth B LingSyngenta, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG42 6EY, UK.
Matthew M McLachlanSyngenta, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG42 6EY, UK.
Mark G MontgomerySyngenta, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG42 6EY, UK.
Claire J RussellSyngenta, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG42 6EY, UK.
Allan J B WatsonEaStCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9ST, UK. aw260@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural phytotoxins are valuable starting points for agrochemical design. Acting as a jasmonate agonist, coronatine represents an attractive herbicidal lead with novel mode of action, and has been an important synthetic target for agrochemical development. However, both restricted access to quantities of coronatine and a lack of a suitably scalable and flexible synthetic approach to its constituent natural product components, coronafacic and coronamic acids, has frustrated development of this target. Here, we report gram-scale production of coronafacic acid that allows a comprehensive structure-activity relationship study of this target. Biological assessment of a >120 member library combined with computational studies have revealed the key determinants of potency, rationalising hypotheses held for decades, and allowing future rational design of new herbicidal leads based on this template.

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Amino AcidsHerbicidesIndenesModels, MolecularPlant WeedsStructure-Activity RelationshipAmino Acidscoronafacic acidcoronatineHerbicidesIndenes

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PMID29549326
PMCPMC5856746

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