Synfacts 2008(5): 0452-0452  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1072700
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
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Synthesis of Three Lycopodium Alkaloids

Contributor(s): Philip Kocienski, Stewart Eccles
T. Kozaka, N. Miyakoshi, C. Mukai*
Kanazawa University, Japan
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Publication History

Publication Date:
23 April 2008 (online)

Significance

The three alkaloids were isolated from Lycopodium paniculatum and Lycopodium magellanicum and have been the subject of many synthetic studies due to the challenging tetracyclic core. Two Pauson-Khand reactions (PKR) produced the two fused bicyclic systems that constitute the structural framework of the natural products.