Yong-Qiang Tu and co-workers at Lanzhou University have reported in ACIEE on the total synthesis of alopecuridine. The five membered ring was accessed via a SmI2 mediated pinacol coupling.
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Alopecuridine Synthesis
Posted by naturalproductman on March 22, 2011
Posted in Alkaloids, Cascade Reactions, Methodology, Named Reactions, Pinacol coupling, Pinacol rearrangement, Ring forming | Leave a Comment »
