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Synlett 2008(5): 667-670
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1032102
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1032102
LETTER
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Rapid Synthesis of the Ervitsine Alkaloid Skeleton by a Sequential RCM-Heck Cyclization Approach
Further Information
Received
29 October 2007
Publication Date:
26 February 2008 (online)
Publication History
Publication Date:
26 February 2008 (online)
Abstract
An efficient approach to the bridged framework of the indole alkaloid ervitsine, featuring a ring-closing metathesis reaction from a 2,3-disubstituted indole followed by a vinyl halide Heck cyclization upon the resulting cycloheptene ring, is described.
Key words
indoles - annulation - metathesis - Heck reaction - alkaloids
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