Kundan Shaw, Sulekha Sharma, Arindam Khatua, Amit Paul and Alakesh Bisai
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2021,19, 9390-9395
DOI:
10.1039/D1OB01463C,
Communication
An efficient electrochemical oxidation strategy for the total synthesis of a dimeric hexahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]indole alkaloid, (±)-folicanthine (1b), has been envisioned. Control experiments suggest that a PCET pathway involving stepwise electron transfer followed by proton transfer (ET-PT) was involved in the key oxidative dimerization process.
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