Wen-Hua Chiou and Yu-Min Chiang
RSC Adv., 2014,4, 11444-11446
DOI:
10.1039/C4RA00770K,
Communication
An asymmetric synthesis to the dendrobatid alkaloid (−)-epibatidine has been described, featuring chiral resolution of both optically pure 7-azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptanecarboxylic acid, and subsequent transformations to (−)-epibatidine. The methodology provides a flexible access to various substituted chiral epibatidine analogues.