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SUBMITTER: Usui I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3653569 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Usui Ippei I Lin David W DW Masuda Takeshi T Baran Phil S PS
Organic letters 20130411 9
The first synthesis of members of the sarcodonin family, phellodonin and sarcodonin ε, is reported herein. This verifies that the unprecedented and seemingly unstable N,N-dioxide-containing benzodioxazine framework can be constructed in the laboratory and lends further support to the proposed structures. The key step in the synthesis involves a biomimetic hetero-Diels-Alder reaction between a pyrazine N-oxide and an ortho-quinone. ...[more]