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Total Synthesis of Murrayanine Involving 4,5-Dimethyleneoxazolidin-2-ones and a Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Diaryl Insertion

✍ Scribed by Pablo Bernal; Joaquín Tamariz


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
German
Weight
80 KB
Volume
90
Category
Article
ISSN
0018-019X

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✦ Synopsis


Abstract

A new total synthesis of the natural carbazole murrayanine (1) was developed by using the 4,5‐dimethyleneoxazolidin‐2‐one 12 as starting material. The latter underwent a highly regioselective Diels–Alder cycloaddition with acrylaldehyde (=prop‐2‐enal; 13) to give adduct 14 (Scheme 3). Conversion of this adduct into diarylamine derivative 9 was carried out via hydrolysis and methylation (Scheme 4). Differing from our previous synthesis, in which such a diarylamine derivative was transformed into 1 by a Pd^II^‐stoichiometric cyclization, this new approach comprised an improved cyclization through a more efficient Pd^0^‐catalyzed intramolecular diaryl coupling which was applied to 9, thus obtaining the natural carbazole 1 in a higher overall yield.


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