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Total synthesis of (-)-colchicine via a Rh-triggered cycloaddition cascade
Graening, Timm,Bette, Virginie,Neudoerfl, Joerg,Lex, Johann,Schmalz, Hans-Guenther
, p. 4317 - 4320 (2007/10/03)
(Chemical Equation Presented) A synthesis of the antimitotic alkaloids (-)-colchicine and (-)-isocolchicine is reported. Important steps are (a) enantioselective transfer-hydrogenation of an alkynone, (b) iodine/magnesium exchange with subsequent aromatic
Total syntheses of colchicine in comparison: A journey through 50 years of synthetic organic chemistry
Graening, Timm,Schmalz, Hans-Guenther
, p. 3230 - 3256 (2007/10/03)
Colchicine, the major alkaloid of the meadow saffron, is one of the most prominent natural products and, like other tubulin-binding natural products (e.g. taxol and the epothilones), exhibits great pharmaceutical potential. The first syntheses in the late
