Closing in on azacines: We have developed a new six step approach for the rapid and enantioselective synthesis of indolizidine, pyrrolo[1,2‐a]azepine, and pyrrolo[1,2‐a]azocine azabicyclic systems and their respective lactam congeners, which are found in a host of natural products as well as pharmaceutical preparations. This protocol enables a concise enantioselective total synthesis of (+)‐grandisine D in 16.4 % overall yield from commercial materials (see scheme).
In this Letter, we describe the first total synthesis of cremastrine, a pyrrolizidine alkaloid from Cremastra appendiculata, with anticholinergic activity as well as an unnatural analogue. The streamlined synthesis proceeds in 9 steps, 7 steps longest linear sequence, in 25.2% overall yield, and features novel methodology to construct the pyrrolizidine core. Biological evaluation of cremastrine and the unnatural analogue indicated that both are pan-mAChR functional antagonists.
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