S. Ibnahmed et al., SELENIUM-MEDIATED SYNTHESIS OF TETRAHYDROISOQUINOLINE RING-SYSTEMS - APPLICATION TO THE PREPARATION OF 6-DEOXY-2,3-DI-O-BENZYL LYCORICIDINE, Heterocyclic communications, 3(2), 1997, pp. 135-138
A strategy for the synthesis of the tetrahydroisoquinoline skeleton an
d its application to the synthesis of a protected derivative of 6-deox
y-lycoricidine are described. The key step of this sequence is the sel
enium mediated B ring closure and subsequent selenoxide elimination to
restore the C ring double bond.