Recent Syntheses and Strategies toward Polycyclic Gelsemium Alkaloids

This Minireview is focused on an in-depth discussion of comparative strategies to construct the gelsemine and gelsedine classes of the gelsemium alkaloids. This document highlights the diversity of strategies used to access specific motifs found within these targets: a) the fused "[3.2.1]bicycle" (in gelsemine) and "oxabicycle" (in gelsedine class); b) the "piroxindole" moiety with C7 quaternary center; c) the "N-heterocycles" and d) the "THP" moiety with C20 quaternary center (in gelsemine).