A New Synthetic Route to Indoloquinones: Formal Synthesis of Ellipticine

Dipakranjan Mal; Bidyut K. Senapati; Pallab Pahari

doi:10.1055/s-2005-864826

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A New Synthetic Route to Indoloquinones: Formal Synthesis of Ellipticine

Dipakranjan Mal*, Bidyut K. Senapati, Pallab Pahari
Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721 302, India
Fax: +91(3222)255303; e-Mail: dmal@chem.iitkgp.ernet.in;

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The anionic [4+2] cycloaddition of furoindolones with arynes and quinol ethers is introduced as an efficient strategy for the synthesis of indoloquinones. The utility of the strategy is exemplified by a very short synthesis of elipticine.

Key words

indoles - quinones - anionic cycloaddition

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