M. Nakagawa et al., DIHYDROPYRIDINONE APPROACH TO MANZAMINES - AN EXPEDIENT CONSTRUCTION OF THE TETRACYCLIC CORE OF MANZAMINE-A, Tetrahedron letters, 34(28), 1993, pp. 4543-4546
A construction of the central tetracyclic core (19) of manzamine A (1)
was successfully achieved by a highly efficient Diels-Alder reaction
of the suitably protected dihydropyridinones (5) and Danishefsky's die
ne as a key strategy. Expedient conversion of the D-A product (7) to t
he precursor (15) was followed by the azocine lactam ring closure to f
urnish the titled core.