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A novel and general synthetic pathway to strychnos indole alkaloids: Total syntheses of (-)-tubifoline, (-)-dehydrotubifoline, and (-)-strychnine using palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitution
Mori, Miwako,Nakanishi, Masato,Kajishima, Daisuke,Sato, Yoshihiro
, p. 9801 - 9807 (2007/10/03)
A method of palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitution for synthesizing 2-substituted cyclohexenylamine derivatives was established. Treatment of a 2-silyloxymethylcyclohexenol derivative with ortho-bromo-N-tosylaniline in the presence of Pd2dba 3·CHCl3 and (S)-BINAPO in THF afforded a cyclohexenylamine derivative with 84% ee in 80% yield. The Heck reaction was carried out to produce an indolenine derivative in good yield. Using this method, we synthesized indolenine derivative 7, which was recrystallized from EtOH to give an optically pure compound. From this compound, tetracyclic ketone 13, which should be a useful intermediate for the synthesis of indole alkaloids, could be synthesized. The total syntheses of (-)-dehydrotubifoline, (-)-tubifoline, and (-)-strychnine were achieved from 13. All ring constructions for the syntheses of these natural products were achieved using a palladium catalyst.
Total synthesis of (-)-strychnine
Nakanishi, Masato,Mori, Miwako
, p. 1934 - 1936 (2007/10/03)
The power of palladium catalysts is shown in a total synthesis of (-)-strychnine (A). The construction of all the rings of this challenging molecule relied on Pd0- or PdII-catalyzed reactions. The final step in this efficient synthes
A short, stereocontrolled synthesis of strychnine
Rawal,Iwasa
, p. 2685 - 2686 (2007/10/02)
Strychnine has been synthesized by a short, highly stereocontrolled route that involves the efficient transformation of commercially available 2-nitrophenylacetonitrile into isostrychnine, a known precursor to strychnine.
