Routes to chiral N-acyliminium ion precursors for the synthesis of optically active pure ring-fused pyrroloisoquinoline alkaloids

Pyrrolisoquinoline (B) is found as a major structural motif of the erythrina alkaloid group of natural products. We recognised that a suitably substituted bicyclic lactam (A) could act as a precursor in an intramolecular N-acyliminium mediated cyclisation reaction in a stereoselective approach to th...

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Main Author: James, Stella L.
Published: Loughborough University 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289121