Jt. Link et al., STAUROSPORINE AND ENT-STAUROSPORINE - THE FIRST TOTAL SYNTHESES, PROSPECTS FOR A REGIOSELECTIVE APPROACH, AND ACTIVITY PROFILES, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 118(12), 1996, pp. 2825-2842
The total syntheses of staurosporine and ent-staurosporine have been a
chieved. Both glycosidic bonds were built from glycal precursors. The
first was constructed by intermolecular coupling of an indole anion wi
th a 1,2-anhydrosugar derived from an endo-glycal by direct epoxidatio
n. The second bond was assembled from an exo-glycal by intramolecular
iodoglycosylation.