Recent progress in the total synthesis of indole alkaloids

Current Opinion in Drug Discovery and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 752-771

  Edwankar, Chitra R ^a   Edwankar, Rahul V ^a   Namjoshi, Ojas A ^a   Rallapalli, Sundari K ^a   Yang, Jie ^a   Cook, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antileishmanial bisindoles; Asymmetric Pictet Spengler reaction; Carbocation mediated epimerization; Corynanthe alkaloids; Larock heteroannulation; Macroline; Strictosidine synthase

Indexed keywords

9 METHOXY NB METHYL GEISSOSCHIZOL; 9 METHOXYGEISSOSCHIZOL; ACCEDINISINE; AJMALICINE; ALSTONISINE; ANTILEISHMANIAL AGENT; CARBOLINE DERIVATIVE; CONODURAMINE; CONODURINE; CORYNANTHEIDOL; CORYNANTHEINE; DIHYDROCORYNANTHEINE; DIHYDROCORYNANTHEOL; GEISSOSCHIZINE; INDOLE ALKALOID; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; MITRAGYNINE; N' DEMETHYLACCEDINISINE; PERICYCLIVINE; RAUWOLSCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; DIASTEREOISOMER; DRUG CONFORMATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENANTIOSELECTIVITY; EPIMERIZATION; ISOMERIZATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; ONE POT SYNTHESIS; PICTET SPENGLER REACTION; REDUCTION; REVIEW; RING OPENING; STEREOCHEMISTRY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; INDOLE ALKALOIDS; ISOMERISM; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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