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. 2019 Jun 17;9:8656. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-45001-9

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Chemical structures referenced in this work and the scale-up strategy. (a) Chemical structures of halichondrin B, norhalichondrin B, C52-halichondrin-B alcohol, and C52-halichondrin-B amine/E7130. (b) The strategy for scale-up. The previous synthesis relied on a C38-C39 bond formation strategy. The new synthesis relies on a C37-C38 bond formation strategy. The latter provided 19.5 g of C52-halichondrin-B alcohol with 99.84% purity. Fifteen grams of this compound was used to synthesize 11.5 g of E7130 with 99.81% purity as the first GMP batch (92 overall steps).