Tunable Site Selectivity and Chemo- and Regioselectivity: Diversification of Indole Alkaloid Privileged Scaffolds
Zenghui Sun1,2, Ziyi Zhang1, Ran Guo1
1Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, Hebei Medical University, 361 East Zhongshan Road, Shijiazhuang 050017, China.
Abstract:
Amidst nature's repertoire of small molecule architectures, indole alkaloid-derived privileged scaffolds continuously support innovation in bioactive compound discovery and propel fragment-based drug design. Herein, we realized a metal-free, site-selective, and chemo- and regioselective cross-nucleophile coupling cascade of pluripotent indole-enamine-aniline intermediates by use of λ3-iodane-mediated umpolung chemistry. The protocol is applicable toward the divergent synthesis of valuable benzo[c]indolo[3,2-j][2,6]naphthyridines and azepino[4,5-b]indoles, which are very important privileged scaffolds in communesin-, peroforamidine-, and iboga-type alkaloids. The control experiments and theoretical calculations provide insights into the reaction mechanism and the site-selectivity of umpolung induced by λ3-iodane.
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