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NEW STRATEGY FOR CHIRAL ALKALOID SYNTHESIS COMMENCING WITH A CARBOHYDRATE. SIMPLE SYNTHESIS OF (-)-ALLO-YOHIMBANE FROM LEVOGLUCOSENONE
Isobe, Minoru,Fukami, Naoki,Goto, Toshio
, p. 71 - 74 (1985)
An optically active allo-yohimbane was synthesized in 12 steps from levoglucosenone.The key steps are Diels-Alder cycloaddition for the E-ring construction followed by eliminative Wolff-Kishner reduction and selective double cyclization in the D- and C-ri