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SUBMITTER: Srinivasan JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3334326 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 20110224 13
A concise synthesis of a highly functionalized intermediate lacking only C10 of the mitomycin backbone is described. The key to this development is the Brønsted acid-catalyzed aza-Darzens reaction used to forge the cis-aziridine. Additionally an oxidative ketalization fortuitously occurs during the quinone-enamine coupling step, leading to an orthogonally protected hydroquinone. ...[more]