An Expedient Route to the Calabar Bean Alkaloids (-)-physovenine and (-)-physostigmine

Overview

Journal Org Lett

Publisher American Chemical Society

Specialties Biochemistry
Chemistry

Date 2000 Aug 31

PMID 10964358

Citations 4

Authors

A S ElAzab

T Taniguchi

K Ogasawara

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Abstract

An expedient route to the Calabar bean alkaloids (-)-physovenine and (-)-physostigmine has been devised using a chiral building block which was originally designed for diastereocontrolled construction of aldohexoses.

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