Facile construction of the pentacyclic framework of subincanadine B. Synthesis of 20-deethylenylated subincanadine B and 19,20-dihydrosubincanadine B

Organic Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 115-118

  Liu, Yanqin ^a   Luo, Shengjun ^a   Fu, Xingnian ^a   Fang, Fang ^a   Zhuang, Zeyang ^a,b   Xiong, Wanting ^a   Jia, Xueshun ^b   Zhai, Hongbin ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; INDOLE ALKALOID; SUBINCANADINE B;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

ETHYLENES; INDOLE ALKALOIDS;

EID: 30944449293     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol0526367     Document Type: Article

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21. The relative configuration of 28a was subsequently confirmed by the correlation to the X-ray crystallographic structure of 31 (see the main text).