Novel approaches towards the total syntheses of pinnaic acid and matrine

This thesis describes synthetic efforts towards two natural products matrine and pinnaic acid. The strategy towards matrine focused on effecting an overall, but not necessarily concerted [4+2] cycloaddition in which a 1,4-dihydropyridine supplies the dienophile and aN-vinyl pyrldone is activated to...

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Main Author: O'Donnell, Liam
Published: University of Nottingham 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594592