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SUBMITTER: Iyengar R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2525662 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of organic chemistry 20051201 26
[reaction: see text] A total synthesis of (+)-aspidospermidine (1) is described. The key reactions used in the synthesis of this pentacyclic Aspidosperma alkaloid were a deracemizing imine alkylation/Robinson annulation sequence, a selective "redox ketalization", and an intramolecular Schmidt reaction. A Fischer indolization step carried out on a tricyclic ketone mirrored the sequence reported by Stork and Dolfini in their classic aspidospermine synthesis. ...[more]