G. Bringmann et al., BISMURRAYAQUINONE-A - SYNTHESIS, CHROMATOGRAPHIC ENANTIOMER RESOLUTION, AND STEREOANALYSIS BY COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL CD INVESTIGATIONS, Tetrahedron, 51(34), 1995, pp. 9353-9360
The first total synthesis of a naturally occurring dimeric carbazole a
lkaloid, bismurrayaquinone A (4), is described, by oxidation of dimeri
c O-demethylmurrayafoline A, a still hypothetic natural product recent
ly synthesized. By chromatography on a chiral phase, the two atropoena
ntiomers were separated. The absolute configurations of these two rota
tional isomers were elucidated by comparison of their calculated spect
ra with those measured experimentally.