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SUBMITTER: Patel A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3632451 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20130318 12
A novel stereoselective electrocyclization developed for the total synthesis of reserpine has been explored by both experiment and theory. A stereocenter six atoms away from the newly forming chiral center is responsible for the diastereoselectivity of the ring closure. This stereogenic center, lying at the junction of two six-membered rings, defines the conformation of the substrates' fused ring skeleton that ultimately distinguishes between the two allowed, disrotatory triene geometries at the ...[more]