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SUBMITTER: Leal RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3481541 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Leal Raul A RA Beaudry Danial R DR Alzghari Saeed K SK Sarpong Richmond R
Organic letters 20120928 20
An effective synthesis of the pentacyclic core of the unusual Kopsia alkaloid arboflorine is reported. The success of the synthetic route rested on the use of a borylative C-H functionalization reaction, a convergent Suzuki cross-coupling to a C(2) halogenated indole, and an unprecedented transannular dehydrogenative C-N bond forming reaction. ...[more]