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SUBMITTER: Goldberg AF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4479304 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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A series of highly substituted vinylcyclopropanes were prepared and examined as reaction partners in a palladium-catalyzed (3 + 2) cycloaddition with nitrostyrenes. Described herein are our efforts to synthesize an elusive 1,1-divinylcyclopropane by several distinct approaches, and to apply surrogates of this fragment toward the synthesis of the <i>Melodinus</i> alkaloids. ...[more]