Ceratospongamide is a cyclic peptide natural product that is biosynthesized as a mixture of two proline rotamers. Remarkably, these rotamers do not detectably interconvert at temperatures up to 100 degress C. Here we report high-yielding syntheses of each rotamer and demonstrate that the threonine-derived oxazoline plays a critical role in determining the kinetic distribution of conformational isomers.
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