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David Tejedor1, Samuel Delgado-Hernández1, Rubén M Carballo2
1Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas , Avda. Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez 3, 38 206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain.
Abstract:
Herein we describe a salicylaldehyde-annulation reaction as a plug and play toolkit to diversify the complexity of naturally occurring ketones. The protocol entails the transformation of the polycyclic natural ketone into its propargyl vinyl ether derivative (two synthetic steps) and its microwave-assisted imidazole-catalyzed domino rearrangement to generate the salicylaldehyde ring. This annexed unit allows further synthetic transformations: e.g., the installation of a pharmacophore module to generate natural product-pharmacophore hybrids endowed with unknown biological (pharmaceutical) annotations.
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