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SUBMITTER: Johnson RE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6742481 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20190204 6
The first synthesis of a pentacyclic ambiguine (ambiguine P) is reported. The synthesis takes advantage of sequential alkylations of an indole core to rapidly construct the pentacyclic framework of the natural product. Key to the success of the synthesis was the use of a Nicholas reaction to alkylate at C2, crafting a fused seven-membered ring that is characteristic of the pentacyclic ambiguines, as well as the use of an amide-directed functionalization at C12 to set a requisite quaternary cente ...[more]