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DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1216929
Total Synthesis of the Leucetta-Derived Alkaloid Calcaridine A
Publication History
Publication Date:
07 August 2009 (online)

Abstract
A biomimetically guided total synthesis of the Leucetta-derived aminoimidazole alkaloid, calcaridine A, is described. The synthesis relies on position selective metalations of a 4,5-diiodoimidazole derivative to provide a tetrasubstituted imidazole. Subjection of this polysubstituted imidazole derivative to oxidative rearrangement with a Davis oxaziridine provides the corresponding imidazolone core of calcaridine A.
Key words
2-aminoimidazole - oxidative rearrangement - metal-halogen exchange - oxaziridine - imidazolone
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