First Total Synthesis of Cleroindicin B, (±) Cleroindicin C and E

• Jin CHEN ^1, ,
• Jun TIAN ^1, ,
• Feng E WU ^1, ,
• Norio Kawabe ^2, ,
• Masahiko Tokuda ^2,

• 1.

  Laboratory of Natural Materia Medica, Chengdu Institute of Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041;

• 2.

  Basic Research Laboratories, Toray Industries, Inc., Tebiro 1111, Kamakura, Kanagawa 248, Japan

• Received Date: 22 February 2001
  
• Fund Project:

  This work was financially supported by Di-Ao Science Fund, Chinese Academy of Sciences. We are grateful to Mr. F. Su and Mrs. B. R. Bai for recording the NMR spectra.