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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Choi Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2587129 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi Younggi Y Ishikawa Hayato H Velcicky Juraj J Elliott Gregory I GI Miller Michael M MM Boger Dale L DL
Organic letters 20050901 20
[reaction: see text] Two exceptionally concise total syntheses of (-)- and ent-(+)-vindoline are detailed enlisting a diastereoselective tandem [4 + 2]/[3 + 2] cycloaddition of a 1,3,4-oxadiazole. The unique reaction cascade assembles the fully functionalized pentacyclic ring system of vindoline in a single step that forms four C-C bonds and three rings while introducing all requisite functionality and setting all six stereocenters within the central ring including three contiguous and four tota ...[more]