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Synfacts 2010(10): 1099-1099  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1258625
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
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Synthesis of (-)-Phalarine

Contributor(s): Steven V. Ley, Kimberley A. Roper
J. D. Trzupek, D. Lee, B. M. Crowley, V. M. Marathias, S. J. Danishefsky*
Pfizer, Cambridge, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York and Columbia University, New York, USA
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22 September 2010 (online)

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Significance

Phalarine is an indole-related alkaloid with interesting propeller-like interlocking ring systems. Danishefsky and co-workers previously published the racemic synthesis (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 1448) and, through mechanistic studies, have now circumvented the retro-Mannich reaction that previously gave the racemate.