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Transition metal complexes in organic synthesis, part 53. Iron-mediated synthesis of hyellazole and isohyellazole

HJ Knölker, E Baum, T Hopfmann

Index: Knoelker, Hans-Joachim; Baum, Elke; Hopfmann, Thomas Tetrahedron, 1999 , vol. 55, # 34 p. 10391 - 10412

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Abstract

The synthesis of the marine alkaloid hyellazole and the non-natural regioisomer isohyellazole is reported starting from the tricarbonyliron-complexed cyclohexadienylium cation and the fully functionalized arylamines by electrophilic aromatic substitution and oxidative cyclization.