Shruti Vandana Kauloorkar, Vishwajeet Jha, Ganesh Jogdand and Pradeep Kumar
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2014,12, 4454-4460
DOI:
10.1039/C4OB00461B,
Paper
A simple and highly efficient approach to hydroxylated pyrrolizidine and indolizidine is developed from an aldehyde as a starting material using organocatalytic and asymmetric dihydroxylation reactions as key steps. Its application to the total synthesis of (−)-lentiginosine, (−)-epi-1,2-lentiginosine and (−)-dihydroxypyrrolizidine is also reported.