Formal total syntheses of stemonamine and cephalotaxine bearing the core cyclopenta[1,2-]pyrrolo[1,2-]azepine ring skeleton were achieved. The general synthetic strategy in the synthesis features the reductive oxy-Nazarov cyclization as key step, leading to the versatile construction of N-substituted spiro quaternary stereogenic centers from readily available starting materials.
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