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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Dietz J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3079212 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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A novel approach to the tricyclic core of the Stemona alkaloids stemofoline and didehydrostemofoline has been discovered that features an intramolecular (3+2) dipolar cycloaddition of an unactivated carbon-carbon double bond with an azomethine ylide; the azomethine ylide was generated by an unprecedented reaction that occurred during a Swern oxidation of an α-(N-cyanomethyl)-β-hydroxy ester. In separate experiments, the efficacy of introducing the requisite oxygen functionality at C(8) and the 1 ...[more]