Efficient total syntheses of (±)-vincadifformine and (-)-tabersonine

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1519-1522

  Kobayashi, Satoshi ^a   Peng, Ge ^b   Fukuyama, Tohru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; BENZENESULFONAMIDE DERIVATIVE; INDOLE; TABERSONINE; VINCADIFFORMINE;

ARTICLE; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0033582790     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(98)02667-7     Document Type: Article

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