Regiospecific and stereoselective syntheses of (±)-reserpine and (-)-reserpine

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 127, Issue 46, 2005, Pages 16255-16262

  Stork, Gilbert ^a   Tang, Peng Cho ^a,b   Casey, Michael ^a,c   Goodman, Burton ^a   Toyota, Masahiro ^a,d  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Hengrui Pharmaceutical Ltd   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGIOSPECIFIC SYNTHESIS; RESERPINE; STEREOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS;

STEREOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

AMINONITRILE; BICYCLO[2.2.2]OCTANE DERIVATIVE; CYCLOHEXANONE; HYDRINDANE; INDAN DERIVATIVE; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE; NITRILE; RESERPINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CYCLIZATION; CYCLOADDITION; DECARBOXYLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENANTIOMER; EPIMER; HORNER WADSWORTH EMMONS REACTION; HYDROBORATION; METHYLATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OZONOLYSIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STEREOCHEMISTRY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CYCLIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RESERPINE; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 28044452880     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja055744x     Document Type: Article

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