Application of Vicarious Nucleophilic Substitution to the Total Synthesis of dl-Physostigmine

A concise, highly efficient formal total synthesis of dl-physostigmine is described, using a relatively simple method that should be adaptable to the synthesis of homologous members of this type of alkaloid. The key step in the synthesis is a new vicarious nucleophilic substitution reaction between...

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