Synlett 2004(15): 2670-2680  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-834801
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Asymmetric Synthesis of Polyfunctionalized Pyrrolidines and Related Alkaloids

Stephen G. Pyne*, Andrew S. Davis, Nicole J. Gates, Joseph P. Hartley, Karl B. Lindsay, Theeraphan Machan, Minyan Tang
Department of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, 2522, Australia
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Publication History

Received 15 June 2004
Publication Date:
20 October 2004 (online)

Abstract

This account describes our recent studies on the development of a general method of preparing polyfunctionalized pyrrolidine, indolizidine, pyrrolizidine and pyrrolo[1,2-a]azepines and their related alkaloids.

  • 1 Introduction

  • 2 Tandem Vinyl Epoxide Aminolysis/Ring-Closing ­Metathesis

  • 3 All Routes Lead to Oxazolidinones

  • 4 Syn-Dihydroxylation Reactions of 2,5-Dihydropyrroles, ­Indolizidines and Pyrrolo[1,2-c]oxazol-3-ones

  • 5 Asymmetric Synthesis of Swainsonine and Epiaustralines

  • 6 Synthesis of 1,2-Amino Alcohols and Putative Uniflorine A Using the Petasis Reaction

  • 7 Croomine Revisited

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Tang, M., unpublished work from these laboratories.