Citation: Mei Xu, Tian-Yun Fan, Jian-Xin Zhang, Xiao-Jiang Hao, Sheng Liu. A novel synthesis route to furo[3,2-a]carbazole[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2015, 26(3): 282-284. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2014.11.026 shu

A novel synthesis route to furo[3,2-a]carbazole

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a The Key Laboratory of Chemistry for Natural Products of Guizhou Province, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550002, China;
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b Guizhou University, Guiyang 550002, China

Corresponding author: Sheng Liu,
Received Date: 24 June 2014
Available Online: 23 October 2014
Fund Project: The work was financially supported by NSFC (No. 21102026) (No. 21102026)

In this paper, we report a novel approach to the heteroaryl-condensed nuclei of natural furo[3,2-a]carbazole alkaloids. Our synthetic studies use N-phthaloyl tryptophan methyl ester as starting material and zinc ion mediated transamination reaction as the key step. This work also implicated a novel strategy to assemble other [a]-fused carbazoles.
- Synthesis,
- Furo[3,2-a]carbazole,
- Transamination
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