Angewandte Chemie. International edition in English 2015-04-27

A concise and scalable strategy for the total synthesis of dictyodendrin B based on sequential C-H functionalization.

Andrew K Pitts, Fionn O'Hara, Robert H Snell, Matthew J Gaunt

Index: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 54(18) , 5451-5, (2015)

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Abstract

A sequential CH functionalization strategy for the synthesis of the marine alkaloid dictyodendrin B is reported. Our synthesis begins from commercially available 4-bromoindole and involves six direct functionalizations around the heteroarene core as part of a gram-scale strategy towards the natural product. © 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.