Manjusha V. Karkhelikar, Rajeev R. Jha, B. Sridhar, Pravin R. Likhar and Akhilesh K. Verma
Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 8526-8528
DOI:
10.1039/C4CC02466D,
Communication
An efficient approach for the synthesis of pyrrolo[3,2-c]quinolines (the core nucleus of the natural product martinellic acid) from protected 2-alkynylanilines via the regioselective formation of pyrroles followed by Heck and intramolecular Michael addition has been described.