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SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Caro JF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10647431 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20231028 21
The 5,8-disubstituted indolizidines are the largest family of indolizidines isolated from the skin of amphibians. These compounds exhibit interesting biological activities such as noncompetitive blockers of nicotinic receptors. In this paper, we present a short, simple, and general synthesis of these alkaloids based on the hetero Diels-Alder reaction between suitable monoactivated dienes and Δ<sup>1</sup>-pyrroline as the dienophile. The selectivity of the process is explained based on computati ...[more]