A category of highly fused diterpenoid natural products possessing a characteristic perhydropyrene-like or rearranged tetracyclic skeleton structure are distributed in different life forms.Compared to traditional poly...A category of highly fused diterpenoid natural products possessing a characteristic perhydropyrene-like or rearranged tetracyclic skeleton structure are distributed in different life forms.Compared to traditional polycyclic diterpenoids,their biosynthetic pathways are quite unique and diverse.Chemists have pinpointed a range of this type of unusual diterpenoids:cycloamphilectanes and isocycloamphilectanes,kempenes and rippertanes,hydropyrene and hydropyrenol,along with recently disclosed cephalotanes.This review describes developments in this field and discusses the challenges associated with synthesizing this class of highly complex compounds.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.22471224)。
文摘A category of highly fused diterpenoid natural products possessing a characteristic perhydropyrene-like or rearranged tetracyclic skeleton structure are distributed in different life forms.Compared to traditional polycyclic diterpenoids,their biosynthetic pathways are quite unique and diverse.Chemists have pinpointed a range of this type of unusual diterpenoids:cycloamphilectanes and isocycloamphilectanes,kempenes and rippertanes,hydropyrene and hydropyrenol,along with recently disclosed cephalotanes.This review describes developments in this field and discusses the challenges associated with synthesizing this class of highly complex compounds.