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SUBMITTER: Regueira JLLF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7450706 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organic letters 20200805 16
This work describes the total synthesis of raputindole A (<b>1</b>) through a convergent approach that features (1) an iridium-catalyzed cyclization to assemble the tricyclic core of the northern part, (2) enzymatic resolution to secure the preparation of an enantiomerically pure benzylic alcohol intermediate, and (3) the installation of the isobutenyl side chain via methallylation of the corresponding benzylic carbocation and coupling of the northern and southern parts via the Heck reaction. (+ ...[more]