Pyrrolizidine alkaloids by intramolecular palladium-catalysed allylic alkylation: Synthesis of (±)-isoretronecanol

European Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn , Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2840-2847

  Lemaire, Sébastien ^a   Giambastiani, Giuliano ^b   Prestat, Guillaume ^a   Poli, Giovanni ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alkaloids; Allylic alkylation; Palladium; Synthetic methods

Indexed keywords

ALKADIENE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PALLADIUM; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 4544291862     PISSN: 1434193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.200400135     Document Type: Article

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