Kangjiang Liang, Ting Wu and Chengfeng Xia
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016,14, 4690-4696
DOI:
10.1039/C6OB00682E,
Paper
A concise total synthesis of (±)-serotobenine via a strategy inspired by the biosynthetic hypothesis for this alkaloid was accomplished. The indolofuran core was constructed by an iron-catalyzed intermolecular oxidative radical cross-coupling reaction developed by our group.