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SUBMITTER: Pearson WH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2538914 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organic letters 20060401 8
[reaction: see text] A formal synthesis of the Aspidosperma alkaloids aspidospermidine, aspidospermine, and quebrachamine is reported through an efficient preparation of Stork's penultimate intermediate. The key step of the sequence involved an intramolecular [3 + 2] cycloaddition of the 2-azapentadienyllithium 21 formed in situ from the corresponding imine 1, which after N-alkylation of the resulting cycloadduct provided 2 in excellent yield. The synthesis represents a new disconnection of the ...[more]