Jiachen Xiang, Jungang Wang, Miao Wang, Xianggao Meng and Anxin Wu
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 4240-4247
DOI:
10.1039/C5OB00025D,
Paper
This paper described a decarboxylative deaminative dual-coupling reaction of amino acids with indoles to afford BIM scaffolds and its further application to the one-pot total synthesis of natural products. This method featured a stimulating example of activating amino acids in one pot as multi-carbon building blocks for transformation into final targets which are equipped with amino acid side chain backbones.