Steps towards a practical synthesis of macrocyclic bisbenzylisoquinolines

YM Al??Hiari, SJ Bennett, RJ Davies…

Index: Al-Hiari, Yusuf M.; Bennett, Stephen J.; Cox, Brian; Davies, Robert J.; Khalaf, Abedawn I.; Waigh, Roger D.; Worsley, Alan J. Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2005 , vol. 42, # 4 p. 647 - 659

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Abstract

Abstract There are more than 400-reported bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloids, many with interesting biological activity, but the reported syntheses are long and low yielding. As a result, there have been no systematic attempts at exploitation of the potential therapeutic applications. The concept of a sulfur 'stitch', restricting the conformational freedom of intermediates in the synthesis, will potentially allow analogues of the natural products to ...