Tetrahedron

Syntheses of the cylindrospermopsin alkaloids

RE Looper, MTC Runnegar, RM Williams

Index: Looper, Ryan E.; Runnegar, Maria T.C.; Williams, Robert M. Tetrahedron, 2006 , vol. 62, # 18 p. 4549 - 4562

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Abstract

An intramolecular 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition has efficiently constructed the A-ring portions of the cylindrospermopsin alkaloids. A nitro-aldol addition of an elaborated nitroalkane to a pyrimidine aldehyde followed by an intramolecular reductive guanidinylation has enabled the syntheses of all three alkaloids in this family in 18–19 steps. We report the first asymmetric synthesis of cylindrospermopsin, unambiguously assigning its absolute ...