Latest Research Discoveries | Liansuo ZU publishes “Bio-Inspired Fragmentations: Rapid Assembly of Indolones, 2-Quinolinones, and (-)-Goniomitine” in Angew.Chem.Int.Ed.
Inspired by the biogenetic origin of goniomitine, new synthetic bio-inspired fragmentation strategies for the synthesis of functionalized 2-quinolinones and indolones have been developed. Remarkable synthetic efficiency was achieved by telescoping several transformations into one-pot reactionsallowing for the direct coupling of 2-alkynyl-anilines and diazoketones. The synthetic utility was demonstrated by the 5-step asymmetric total synthesis of (-)-goniomitine from 2-ethyl-cyclopentanone.