Biomimetic inversion of C-3 in monoterpenoid indole alkaloids

1 January 1974

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 22,p. 929-930
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39740000929

Abstract

An inversion of 3-H analogous to that required in vivo has been found to occur spontaneously under mild conditions during a synthesis of Corynanthé-type alkaloids from a vincoside derivative.

Keywords

BIOMIMETIC
CORYNANTHÉ
ANALOGOUS
VINCOSIDE
MONOTERPENOID INDOLE ALKALOIDS
INVERSION