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SUBMITTER: Wang T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5391310 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20161013 42
Here we report the use of the hexadehydro-Diels-Alder (HDDA) reaction for the de novo construction of a benzenoid ring in fused polycyclic heteroaromatic carbazole (i.e., [2,3]-benzoindole) skeletons. The strategy allows creation of highly substituted benzenoids. We also describe the HDDA-enabled chemical synthesis of the natural product alkaloids mahanimbine and koenidine. Trapping of the intermediate carbazolyne with a conjugated enal, proceeding through formal [2+2] cycloaddition, 4π-electroc ...[more]