Antitumour Heterocycles. Part 16.1 The Synthesis of 7,10-Dimethoxyellipticine and its Pyrrolo[2,3-f]carbazole and Pyrrolo[3,2-f] Analogues

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Pryanthi Dharmasena, Ana M. F. Oliveira-Campos, Maria J. R. P. Queiroz, M. Manuela M. Raposo, Patrick V. R. Shannon and Christine M. Webb


Abstract

The final examples in our ellipticine/pyrrolocarbazole synthesis programme are 7,10-dimethoxyellipticine 1a and the corresponding pyrrolocarbazoles 2a and 3a which have been synthesised from 4,6-dimethoxyindole.


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