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In this article, we compare drugs of natural origin to synthetic compounds and analyze the reasons why natural compounds occupy a place of choice in the current pharmacopoeia. The observations reported here support the design of synthetic compounds inspired from plant alkaloids and their biosynthetic pathway. Our reasoning leads to very efficient syntheses of compounds which complexity matches that of indolomonoterpenic alkaloids.

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On demand: A highly enantio- and diastereoselective synthesis of 6-amino- trisubstituted tetrahydropyridine compounds has been developed through the inverse-electron-demand aza-Diels-Alder reaction of N-aryl α,β-unsaturated ketimines with enecarbamates (E)-1. Chiral phosphoric acid catalysts achieve simultaneous activation of both the 1-azadiene and dienophile partners.

The substrate scope of the copper-free Sonogashira coupling has been successfully extended to cyclopropyl iodides, allowing an efficient access to a wide variety of functionalized alkynyl cyclopropanes.

The copper-free Sonogashira coupling between N-substituted cis- 2-iodocyclopropanecarboxamides and terminal aryl-, heteroaryl-alkynes or enynes, followed by 5-exo-dig cyclization of the nitrogen amide onto the carbon-carbon triple bond, provides a remarkably efficient access to a variety of substituted 4-methylene-3-azabicyclo[3.1.0]hexan-2-ones in excellent yields. Protonation of these latter enamides generates bicyclic N-acyliminium ions that can be involved in Pictet-Spengler cyclizations leading to new 3-azabicyclo[3.1.0]hexan-2-ones, possessing a quaternary stereocenter at C4, with high diastereoselectivities. This strategy constitutes an attractive complementary alternative to the classical route that relies on the addition of organometallic reagents to cyclopropyl imides.

Glycolates or glycinates derived from diversely substituted secondary cyclopropenylcarbinols have been involved for the first time in an Ireland-Claisen rearrangement. This reaction allows an efficient and stereoselective access to highly functionalized alkylidenecyclopropanes possessing an α-hydroxy or α-amino acid subunit, which in turn are valuable precursors of substituted cyclopropanes by diastereoselective hydrogenation of the exocyclic alkene.