A concise stereocontrolled formal total synthesis of (+/-)-podophyllotoxin using sulfoxide chemistry.

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Chemistry Department, the Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, and the Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Published: January 2004

A short stereoselective formal total synthesis of (+/-)-podophyllotoxin has been carried out from a sulfoxide, using a one-pot tandem conjugate addition/aldol/electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction to form a tetralin, which was converted into picropodophyllin in two steps.

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