Organic letters

Synthesis of allocolchicines using sequential ring-closing enyne metathesis-Diels-Alder reactions

FD Boyer, I Hanna

Index: Boyer, Francois-Didier; Hanna, Issam Organic Letters, 2007 , vol. 9, # 4 p. 715 - 718

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Citation Number: 38

Abstract

New allocolchinoids having functionality in the C ring at position C10 or C11 have been synthesized using the enyne ring-closing metathesis (RCM) reaction for construction of the seven-membered ring and a Diels-Alder-aromatization sequence for the elaboration of the aromatic ring C.