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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Perreault S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4263289 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Synthesis 20130101 6
An efficient approach to the tricyclic framework of FR901483 is described. The sequence features a [3, 3]-sigmatropic rearrangement of a cyanate into an isocyanate, followed by its subsequent asymmetric rhodium-catalyzed [2+2+2] cycloaddition with a terminal alkyne for the synthesis of the indolizidine core. The <i>aza</i>-tricyclic core is completed using an intramolecular benzoin reaction to close the last ring of the natural product. Through a model study of the key cycloaddition, we evaluate ...[more]