Efficient Total Synthesis of the Pharmacophore of the Anticancer Antibiotic CC‐1065 by Zirconocene‐ and Palladium‐Initiated Cyclizations

Lutz F. Tietze, Wilm Buhr

Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English · 1995 · 54 citations · 19 references

Concepts

Abstract

Three steps suffice for constructing the pyrroloindolino framework of the pharmacophoric moiety 2 of the highly potent anticancer agent CC-1065. The easily accessible bis(allylamino)bromobenzene 1 was transformed by successive cyclizations mediated by [Cp2Zr(Me)Cl] and by a Pd° complex.

References

19