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Unusual biomimetic oxidations of indoles: Synthesis of suaveoline and an alkaloid G analogue
Bailey, Patrick D.,Morgan, Keith M.,Rosair, Georgina M.,Thomas, Rhodri Ll.
, p. 8255 - 8259 (2007/10/03)
The one-pot conversion of ajmaline 1 into the nitrile 4 (X-ray structure) and suaveoline 2a is reported; both reactions utilise hydroxylamine hydrochloride in a refluxing alcohol, and involve unusual multi-step mechanisms in which the product ratio can be
