Indole alkaloids. Enantioselective synthesis of (–)-alloyohimbane by a chemoenzymatic approach
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 4,p. 299-300
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39870000299
Abstract
The pro-(R) enantiotopic specificity of pig liver esterase-catalysed hydrolysis of the meso-diacetate (2) to give (3) enables this chiron to be used in a higly efficient enantioselective synthesis of the natural (–)-alloyohimbane (1).Keywords
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