A. Kamal et al., A NEW FACILE PROCEDURE FOR THE PREPARATION OF PYRROLO[2,1-C] [1,4]BENZODIAZEPINES - SYNTHESIS OF THE ANTIBIOTIC DC-81 AND ITS THIO ANALOGUE, Tetrahedron letters, 37(13), 1996, pp. 2281-2284
An efficient synthesis of the imine form of the pyrrolo[2,1-c] [1,4] b
enzodiazepine ring system based on a new reductive cyclization procedu
re is described. The naturally occuring antibiotic DC-81(5c) and its 5
-thio analogue (7c) have also been synthesized to illustrate the usefu
lness of this methodology.