S. Miah et al., SYNTHESIS OF THE MARINE DIBROMOOXOINDOLINE CONVOLUTAMYDINE-C, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (16), 1997, pp. 2405-2412
A synthesis of the marine 4,6-dibromo-3-hydroxyoxoindoline convolutamy
dine C3 is described. The key steps are the rhodium(II) perfluorobutyr
amide catalysed cyclisation of diazoamide 17 to give the oxoindoline 1
8, and the subsequent high yielding one-pot hydrolysis-decarboxylation
-oxidation of 19 to 20. X-Ray crystal structures have been determined
for the diazoamides 10 and 17 and for the oxoindolines 11 and 13.