Dearomatized indole derivatives bearing a C3- or C2-stereocenter exist ubiquitously in natural products and biologically active molecules. Despite remarkable advances in their chemical synthesis, stereoselective and regio-divergent methods are still …
The palladium-catalyzed intramolecular dearomative Heck reaction of 2,3-disubstituted indoles serves as an access to spiro-indoline products. Herein, we report an efficient construction of indoline/indolenine core stuctures via a dearomative Heck …
An asymmetric total synthesis of cage-like indole alkaloid arborisidine is presented. The new synthetic strategy features a catalytic parallel kinetic resolution based on ambident nucleophilicity (C3/N) of indole to set the absolute configurations of …
The Strychnos alkaloid minfiensine and a series of akuammiline alkaloids, such as vincorine, aspidophylline A, and picrinine, possess a common core skeleton, a 4a,9a-heterocycle-fused tetrahydrocarbazole. Efficient construction of this core structure …
A new method for one-step construction of the tetracyclic core structure of the indole alkaloid (+)-minfiensine was developed utilizing a palladium-catalyzed asymmetric indole dearomatization/iminium cyclization cascade. An efficient total synthesis …