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SUBMITTER: Horning BD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3667606 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20130419 17
A concise and highly enantioselective total synthesis of the akuammiline alkaloid (-)-vincorine has been accomplished. A key element of the synthesis is a stereoselective organocatalytic Diels-Alder, iminium cyclization cascade sequence, which serves to construct the tetracyclic alkaloid core architecture in one step from simple achiral precursors. The challenging seven-membered azepanyl ring system is installed by way of a single electron-mediated cyclization event initiated from an acyl tellur ...[more]