One-pot total synthesis: the first total synthesis of chiral alkaloid pimprinol A and the facile construction of its natural congeners from amino acids
In this work, we accomplished the first total synthesis of chiral alkaloid pimprinol A and the facile construction of its natural congeners: pimprinine, pimprinethine, pimprinaphine, WS-30581A, WS-30581B, laboradorin 1, uguenenazole, balsoxine, texamine in one-potfrom commercially available starting materials including amino acids. Further investigating into the mechanism revealed that this improved