Hj. Knolker et al., TRANSITION METAL-DIENE COMPLEXES IN ORGANIC-SYNTHESIS .23. TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF THE MARINE ALKALOID HYELLAZOLE, Tetrahedron letters, 36(30), 1995, pp. 5339-5342
The marine alkaloid hyellazole has been synthesized in a convergent ma
nner from the tricarbonyliron-complexed cyclohexadienylium cation and
a fully functionalized arylamine by an electrophilic aromatic substitu
tion and subsequent oxidative cyclization.