Recent Developments of Chiral Induction in the Syntheses of Biologically Important Alkaloids

Title:Recent Developments of Chiral Induction in the Syntheses of Biologically Important Alkaloids

Volume: 13 Issue: 17

Author(s): Radha D. Pyarasani, Amalraj John and Leonardo S. Santos

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Keywords: Asymmetric synthesis, alkaloids, asymmetric induction, Chiral auxiliaries, Chiral catalyst, Chiral reagents.

Abstract: Alkaloids are interesting groups of natural products with important biological properties, but naturally available alkaloids are insufficient for biological studies. Therefore, the demand for higher amounts of alkaloids made research community to synthesize alkaloids by innovative techniques. The importance of asymmetric reactions for scientific community to obtain enantiomerically pure compounds with good yield and diastereomeric excess (de) or enantiomeric excess (ee) by different strategies of asymmetric induction is emphasized in this review. In addition, importance have been given to discuss on biologically important alkaloids, their skeleton synthesis, intermediates and total synthesis with different strategies mainly based on chiral auxiliaries, chiral reagents and chiral metal ligand based catalysts.

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Pyarasani D. Radha, John Amalraj and Santos S. Leonardo, Recent Developments of Chiral Induction in the Syntheses of Biologically Important Alkaloids, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 2013; 13 (17) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/15680266113139990151