HETEROCYCLES

Heterocycles has a pay-per-view service for Non-subscribers.
You will be able to directly purchase the full text article through PayPal.
Your purchased Paper can be downloaded after the payment is completed.
An e-mail will be sent the URL to download the paper.
If you have any questions, please contact: purchase@heterocycles.com

Price: ¥ 4,400 (Yen only)
Period: This Article can be accessed for 7 days.

■ Interconversiion between Pyrrolo[1,2-a]indoles and 2,3-Benzazocin-5-ones — A Synthetic Approach to Mitomycins

Tetsuji Kametani,* Kimio Takahashi, Masataka Ihara, and Keiichiro Fukumoto

*Pharmaceutical Institute, Tohoku University, Aobayama, Sendai 980-8578, Japan

Abstract

Pyrrolo[1,2-a]indoles (3 and 5) were converted to hexahydro-2,3-benzazocin-5-ones (10 and 11) by a novel sequence involving the reduction with sodium borohydride in acetic acid followed by von Braun reaction. The benzazocines 10 and 11 were recyclised to pyrrolo[1,2-a] indoles (4 and 5).