A novel and general synthetic pathway to strychnos indole alkaloids: Total syntheses of (-)-tubifoline, (-)-dehydrotubifoline, and (-)-strychnine using palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitution

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 125, Issue 32, 2003, Pages 9801-9807

  Mori, Miwako ^a   Nakanishi, Masato ^a   Kajishima, Daisuke ^a   Sato, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SYNTHETIC PATHWAYS;

CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ORGANOMETALLICS;

2 BROMO N TOSYLANILINE; 2 SILYLOXYMETHYLCYCLOHEXENOL; ALCOHOL; ALKALOID; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOHEXENE DERIVATIVE; DEHYDROTUBIFOLINE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; KETONE DERIVATIVE; PALLADIUM; STRYCHNINE; TUBIFOLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CRYSTALLIZATION; HECK REACTION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; SYNTHESIS;

ALLYL COMPOUNDS; CATALYSIS; INDOLE ALKALOIDS; INDOLES; PALLADIUM; STEREOISOMERISM; STRYCHNINE;

EID: 0042626234     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja029382u     Document Type: Article

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