Protecting-group-free total synthesis of (E)- and (Z)-alstoscholarine

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 50, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3954-3957

  Gerfaud, Thibaud ^a   Xie, Chunsong ^a   Neuville, Luc ^a   Zhu, Jieping ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

alkaloids; enantioselective synthesis; indoles; Pictet Spengler reaction; Takeda olefination

Indexed keywords

ALKALOIDS; ENANTIOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS; INDOLES; OLEFINATION; PICTET-SPENGLER REACTIONS;

METABOLITES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ALKALOID; ALKENE; ALSTOSCHOLARINE; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PALLADIUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ALKALOIDS; ALKENES; CATALYSIS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS WITH 4 OR MORE RINGS; INDOLES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PALLADIUM; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 79954608310     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201100257     Document Type: Article

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