Synthetic studies on the starfish alkaloid imbricatine. A chiral synthesis of tri-O-methylimbricatine

Tetrahedron

Volumn 55, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 4999-5016

  Ohba, Masashi ^a   Nishimura, Yoshikazu ^a   Kato, Miyako ^a   Fujii, Tozo ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acids and derivatives; Imidazoles imidazolidinones; Isoquinolines; Thioethers

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; BENZAMIDE DERIVATIVE; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; BENZYLTETRAHYDROISOQUINOLINE; IMBRICATINE; ISOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; METHYLAMINE; PYRAZINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ASTERIAS; CHIRALITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0033574468     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4020(99)00199-4     Document Type: Article

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