Issue 28, 2015
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Chemical Communications

Bioinspired total synthesis and structural revision of yuremamine, an alkaloid from the entheogenic plant Mimosa tenuiflora†

Matthew B. Calverta  and  Jonathan Sperry*a  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemical Sciences, The University of Auckland, 23 Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand
E-mail: j.sperry@auckland.ac.nz

Abstract

Guided by a biosynthetic hypothesis, a serendipitous total synthesis of yuremamine has resulted in its structural revision from the putative pyrroloindole (1) to the flavonoidal indole (2), which was initially proposed as a biosynthetic intermediate.

Graphical abstract: Bioinspired total synthesis and structural revision of yuremamine, an alkaloid from the entheogenic plant Mimosa tenuiflora

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC00380F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
14 Jan 2015
Accepted
03 Mar 2015
First published
04 Mar 2015

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 6202-6205

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Bioinspired total synthesis and structural revision of yuremamine, an alkaloid from the entheogenic plant Mimosa tenuiflora

M. B. Calvert and J. Sperry, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 6202 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC00380F

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