A convergent enantioselective total synthesis of (-)- perhydrohistrionicotoxin with an intramolecular imino ene-type reaction as a key step

Tetrahedron

Volumn 54, Issue 27, 1998, Pages 7907-7918

  Tanner, David ^a   Hagberg, Lars ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Asymmetric synthesis; Imines; Spiro compounds

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; IMINE; NEUROTOXIN; PERHYDROHISTRIONICOTOXIN; SPIRO COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CYCLIZATION; ENANTIOMER; FROG; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOISOMERISM; TOXIN STRUCTURE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032474797     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4020(98)00425-6     Document Type: Article

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