posted on 2013-09-06, 00:00authored byJi-Chen Zhao, Shun-Ming Yu, Yun Liu, Zhu-Jun Yao
The first total synthesis of ent-(−)-azonazine has been accomplished using a hypervalent iodine-mediated biomimetic oxidative cyclization to construct the highly strained core. Based on the results from the completed synthesis, both the relative and absolute configurations of natural (+)-azonazine were revised.