Total synthesis of the marine alkaloid halichlorine: Development and use of a general route to chiral piperidines

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 74, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 7417-7428

  Liu, Dazhan ^a   Acharya, Hukum P ^a   Yu, Maolin ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Yeh, Vince S C ^a   Kang, Shunzhen ^a   Chiruta, Chandramouli ^a   Jachak, Santosh M ^a   Clive, Derrick L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZYL ESTERS; BICYCLIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; CLAISEN REARRANGEMENT; CONJUGATE ADDITION; FIVE-MEMBERED RINGS; FORMAL SYNTHESIS; GENERAL METHOD; IN-SITU; MARINE ALKALOIDS; RADICAL CYCLIZATIONS; RING FUSION; SEQUENTIAL COMBINATION; SIX-MEMBERED RINGS; TERMINAL ACETYLENE; TOTAL SYNTHESIS;

ACETYLENE; AMINO ACIDS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ESTERS; ETHERS; LIGHTING; ORGANIC ACIDS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

COMPLEXATION;

4 VINYLOXY 3,4 DIHYDRO 2H PYRIDINE 1 CARBOXYLIC ACID BENZYL ESTER; ACETYLENE DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; ESTER DERIVATIVE; HALICHLORINE; PIPERIDINE DERIVATIVE; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIZATION; SYNTHESIS;

ALKALOIDS; CYCLIZATION; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PIPERIDINES; SPIRO COMPOUNDS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 70349464816     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo901481n     Document Type: Article

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