Structural Study of Dehydrocurvularin, an Inhibitor of Microtubule Assembly

Abstract

The solid-state structure of the fungal metabolite E-dehydrocurvularin (2), an inhibitor of microtubule assembly, has been determined by a single-crystal room-temperature X-ray study for comparison with curvularin (1). Crystals of (2) are orthorhombic, P212121, a 17.757(9), b 10.031(6), c 8.069(4) Ǻ, Z = 4; R was 0.060 for 988 independent 'observed' [I > 3σ(I)] diffractometer reflections. The results of this study show that (1) and (2) adopt opposite helicity in the solid state.