Total Synthesis of (−)-Kaitocephalin Based on a Rh-Catalyzed C–H Amination

…, D Yamaguchi, J Ishihara, S Hatakeyama

Index: Takahashi, Keisuke; Yamaguchi, Daisuke; Ishihara, Jun; Hatakeyama, Susumi Organic Letters, 2012 , vol. 14, # 6 p. 1644 - 1647

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Abstract

A total synthesis of (−)-kaitocephalin, an ionotropic glutamate receptor antagonist, is accomplished in highly stereocontrolled manner via Overman rearrangement, rhodium- catalyzed benzylic C–H amination, pyrrolidine formation involving nucleophilic opening of ...