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SUBMITTER: Eckelbarger JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2610334 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20060801 32
Deoxyharringtonine (1) is among the most potent of the anti-leukemia alkaloids isolated from the Cephalotaxus genus. A convergent total synthesis of (-)-1 is reported, involving novel synthetic methods and strategies that include (1) the strain-release rearrangement of N-aryl-2-vinylaziridines for [3]benzazepine synthesis, (2) a vinylogous amide acylation-cycloaddition cascade for spiro-pyrrolidine construction, and (3) efficient acylation of the cephalotaxine core by alpha-(beta-lactone)carboxy ...[more]