Synfacts 2010(1): 0003-0003  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1218265
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
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Synthesis of (+)-Haplophytine

Contributor(s): Philip Kocienski
H. Ueda, H. Satoh, K. Matsumoto, K. Sugimoto, T. Fukuyama*, H. Tokuyama*
Tohoku University, Sendai and University of Tokyo, Japan
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Publication History

Publication Date:
21 December 2009 (online)

Significance

The first total synthesis of haplophytine features a Friedel-Crafts alkylation to create the quaternary center in D and an oxidative ­rearrangement F → G → H.