Exploiting the palladium[0]-catalysed Ullmann cross-coupling reaction in natural products chemistry: application to a total synthesis of the alkaloid (+/-)-aspidospermidine

Martin G Banwell; David W Lupton

doi:10.1039/b415977b

Exploiting the palladium[0]-catalysed Ullmann cross-coupling reaction in natural products chemistry: application to a total synthesis of the alkaloid (+/-)-aspidospermidine

Org Biomol Chem. 2005 Jan 21;3(2):213-5. doi: 10.1039/b415977b. Epub 2004 Dec 7.

Authors

Martin G Banwell¹, David W Lupton

Affiliation

¹ Research School of Chemistry, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. mgb@rsc.anu.edu.au

PMID: 15632959
DOI: 10.1039/b415977b

Abstract

Azide 14, available through the title cross-coupling process, has been converted, via the ring-fused aziridine 15, into the alkaloid aspidospermidine.