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SUBMITTER: Chandrasoma N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4620576 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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A practical, multi-gram 10-step synthesis of racemic herbindole A, B, and C from a common intermediate is described. The key step features a remarkably regioselective C-7 metal-halogen exchange and elimination from a Bartoli-generated <i>N</i>-<i>t</i>-butyldimethylsilyl-4,6,7-tribromo-5-methylindole scaffold to afford the 6,7-indole aryne. Cycloaddition with cyclopentadiene, oxidative cleavage, and Fujimoto reduction gave a common intermediate from which all three herbindoles were readily deriv ...[more]