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SUBMITTER: Canham SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4526107 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tetrahedron 20150901 37
A unified strategy for enantioselective total synthesis of all stereoisomers of the 2+2 family of quadrigemine alkaloids is reported. In this approach, two enantioselective intramolecular Heck reactions are carried out at the same time on precursors fashioned in four steps from either <i>meso</i>- or (+)-chimonanthine to form the two critical quaternary carbons of the peripheral cyclotryptamine rings of these products. Useful levels of catalyst control are realized in either desymmetrizing a <i> ...[more]