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Hailong Li1, Qifeng Chen1, Zhaohong Lu1
1State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China.
Abstract:
The first total syntheses of aflavazole (6) and 14-hydroxyaflavinine (8), two sterically congested indole diterpenoids, were accomplished. AlI3-promoted alkyne Prins cyclization was exploited to construct their key structural motifs. An electrocyclization-aromatization sequence assembled the pentasubstituted arene of 6, and a Stille-Migita coupling furnished the tetrasubstituted olefin of 8. The benzylic and allylic C-O bonds were reductively cleaved at the late stage of the syntheses, respectively.
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