A short, new route to the title tetracyclic substructure of Sf/cycho4 alkaloids, consisting in the nucleophilic attack of an ester a-anion to a pyridinium salt, acid-induced cyclization of the resultant 1,4\_dihydropyridine, and stereospecific elaboration of the ethylidene substituent, is reported.
Studies on the synthesis of Strychnos indole alkaloids
✍ Scribed by Joan Bosch; Marisa Salas; Mercedes Amat; Mercedes Alvarez; Isabel Morgó; Bartomeu Adrover
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 738 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4020
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✦ Synopsis
Tetracycles 3b-d, having the ABCD ring substructure of Strychnos alkaIoids and a &(formvhnethvl) substituent mokcted as an oxime or hvdraxone derivative. have been p&&d-by nu&phiIic addition of the enolate of indok.a&tic ester 1 to pyridinium salts 2b-d followed by acid cyclization. The same one-pot, two-step sequence allowed the preparation of tetracycle 3f. which incorporates an a-methoxyacrylate chain at the piperidine $-position. We have recently developed a new strategy for the synthesis of pentacyclic Strychnos alkaloids.1*2 It consists in the closure of the five-membered E ring by electrophilic cyclixation upon the indole 3-position from appropriate tetracyclic derivatives (the ABCD substructure of Srrychms alkaloids) having a functionalixed two-carbon chain at the piperldhte nitrogen (bond formed C&)? qg-gRs_& Rl I h R2
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