posted on 2017-07-21, 17:38authored byRavi P. Singh, Jayanta Das, Muhammed Yousufuddin, Delphine Gout, Carl J. Lovely
Treatment
of propargyl ureas or guanidines with iodosobenzene diacetate
results in an oxidative tandem amination/etherification dearomatizing
spirocyclization. This transformation leads directly to the complete
framework of the Leucetta alkaloids, spirocalcaridine
A and B.