Palladium-Catalyzed Ullmann Cross-Coupling/Tandem Reductive Cyclization Route to Key Members of the Uleine Alkaloid Family

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2016-04-01

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Tang, Fei
Banwell, Martin
Willis, Anthony

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American Chemical Society

Abstract

The trisubstituted cyclohexenone 12, generated through a palladium-catalyzed Ullmann cross-coupling reaction between o-iodonitrobenzene and a 4,5-trans-disubstituted 2-iodo-2-cyclohexen-1-one, engaged in a tandem reductive cyclization process upon exposure to hydrogen gas in the presence of Raney cobalt. As a result, the 1,5-methanoazocino[4,3-b]indole 13 was obtained and this could be readily elaborated to the racemic modifications of the alkaloids uleine, dasycarpidone, noruleine, and nordasycarpidone (1-4, respectively).

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alkaloids, azocines, bridged-ring compounds, catalysis, cobalt, cyclization, cyclohexanones, indoles, molecular structure, nitrobenzenes, palladium

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The Journal of organic chemistry

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