Diverse alkaloid-like structures from a common building block

A wealth of unique enantiopure polycyclic alkaloid-like scaffolds can be prepared on a multigram scale in only a few steps from a common, commercially available intermediate. The attached nitromethyl group can then be used to construct highly diverse functionalized libraries suitable for screening against biological targets of interest.

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