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SUBMITTER: Aquino C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4892975 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organic letters 20160519 11
The pentacyclic core skeleton of the cortistatins has been prepared in a stereoselective fashion by strategic use of an alkoxide-directed metallacycle-mediated annulative cross-coupling. This metal-centered tandem reaction delivers a polyunsaturated hydrindane and establishes the C13 stereodefined quaternary center with high levels of stereocontrol. Subsequent regio- and stereoselective global hydroboration results in the realization of the DE-trans ring fusion and a tertiary alcohol at C8. Esta ...[more]