Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41926553›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2026

Divergent and programmable skeletal remodeling of complex macrocycles with a small method set.

Ali Nikbakht, Xinghan Li, Jing Wan, Can Qin, Amir H Hoveyda

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Ali Nikbakht *Supramolecular Science and Engineering Institute, CNRS and icFRC, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.ORCID 0009-0009-9649-7931
Xinghan Li *Supramolecular Science and Engineering Institute, CNRS and icFRC, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.ORCID 0000-0002-0441-9568
Jing WanDepartment of Chemistry, Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3793-868X
Can QinSupramolecular Science and Engineering Institute, CNRS and icFRC, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.ORCID 0000-0002-1565-1442
Amir H HoveydaSupramolecular Science and Engineering Institute, CNRS and icFRC, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.ORCID 0000-0002-1470-6456

Funding

UT Southwestern Medical Center Simmons Comprehensive Cancer CenterP30CA142543 · NCI · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Kathryn Ann O'Donnell · 2010 to 2026
$53.7M
New Catalysts, Strategies and Methods for Stereoselective Chemical SynthesisR35GM130395 · NIGMS · BOSTON COLLEGE · PI AMIR H HOVEYDA · 2019 to 2026
$4.4M
CryoProbe-enabled Bruker AVANCE NEO 500 MHz NMR SpectrometerS10OD026910 · OD · BOSTON COLLEGE · PI JAYASUNDERA, THUSITHA · 2021 to 2021
$1000k
An acoustic droplet ejection liquid dipenser for our UTSW HTS CoreS10OD026758 · OD · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI POSNER, BRUCE ARTHUR · 2019 to 2019
$337k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA142543NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM130395NIH HHS S10 OD026758NIH HHS S10 OD026910
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The bioactivity of complex organic macrocycles can vary unpredictably with their three-dimensional structural contours. Here, we present a streamlined, programmable, and systematic strategy for skeletal remodeling of large organic rings. The central diversification platform (hub) is a readily available macrocyclic olefin or a diene. Six transformations, all but one catalytic, are needed: macrocyclic ring-opening/cross-metathesis for cleaving a ring to generate a diene, cross-metathesis and allylic substitution for one-unit chain homologation, alkene isomerization and ethenolysis for one-unit chain clipping, and macrocyclic ring-closing metathesis for reforming a ring. The methods are practical, mild, efficient, and amenable to iteration. Fourteen analogs of anticancer agent epothilone C (the primary model macrocycle) were accessed through a divergent network of reactions that correspond to an average of three steps per analog from the diene hub.

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AlkenesAntineoplastic AgentsEpothilonesMacrocyclic CompoundsCatalysisCyclizationMolecular StructureAlkenesAntineoplastic AgentsEpothilonesMacrocyclic Compounds

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PMCPMC13359330

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