A formal synthesis of (±)-physostigmine via 3,3-rearrangement of a bis-enamine

Tetrahedron

Volumn 61, Issue 38, 2005, Pages 9147-9156

  Santos, Paulo F ^a   Srinivasan, Natarajan ^b   Almeida, Paulo S ^c   Lobo, Ana M ^b   Prabhakar, Sundaresan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Enamines; Eseroline; Physostigmine; Sigmatropic rearrangements

Indexed keywords

1 (2' METHOXYCARBONYL N METHYLVINYLAMINO)SKATOLE; DESOXYESEROLINE; ENAMINE; HEXAHYDROPYRROLO[2,3 B]INDOLE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PHYSOSTIGMINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DRUG SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 23944510845     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2005.07.030     Document Type: Article

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