Synfacts 2009(5): 0473-0473  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1088176
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
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Syntheses of ()-Massadine and Massadine Chloride

Contributor(s): Philip Kocienski
S. Su, I. B. Seiple, I. S. Young, P. S. Baran*
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA
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Publikationsverlauf

Publikationsdatum:
22. April 2009 (online)

Significance

The massadines are highly polar, densely functionalized alkaloids isolated from marine sources. The synthesis depicted includes an improved version of the silver picolinate oxidation of the 2-aminoimidazolidine ring in B previously used by Baran and co-workers in their synthesis of axinellamines.