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after hydrolysis. This strategy also differentiates terminally substituted alkenes and constitutes a potentially novel synthetic approach for the efficient synthesis toward velbanamine.
Keywords: alkene; desymmetrization; dioxygenation; lactone; PIFA; velbanamine; Introduction
Stictosidine-derived
leukemia [12][13][14]. Fragmentation of 3 under acidic conditions delivers two structural units, desacetylvindoline and velbanamine (2) [15]. The reassembling of catharanthine (1) and vindoline (5) into the parent alkaloids 3 and 4 by using FeCl3-promoted oxidative coupling supports the biogenesis of
heterodimeric indole alkaloids [11]. Interestingly, velbanamine (2) was later identified in leaves and twigs of Tabernaemontana eglandulosa in 1984 [16]. Therefore, the syntheses of velbanamine (2) and structurally closely related alkaloids may be important for the syntheses of their dimeric alkaloids. The