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Photochemical Approach to the Synthesis of the Pyrrolobenzodiazepine Antibiotics
Weidner-Wells, Michele A.,DeCamp, Ann,Mazzocchi, Paul H.
, p. 5746 - 5758 (2007/10/02)
The total syntheses of the pyrrolobenzodiazepine antitumor antibiotics prothracarcin and DC-81 were realized using, as a key step, the photochemical ring expansion of the appropriately substituted N-pentenylphthalimide to afford the corresponding pyrrolobenzazepinedione.Conversion of the photoproduct into the antibiotic skeleton was effected by transformation of the benzylic ketone into a carbinolamine via a Curtius rearrangement sequence.
