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Stitching together palau'amine

The long-awaited first total synthesis of the structurally intriguing natural product palau'amine has now been achieved. The synthesis features cascade reactions and an 'across ring' stitching of a 'macropalau'amine', and sets the bar for future efforts towards an enantioselective variant.

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Figure 1: The total synthesis of palau'amine.

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Romo, D. Stitching together palau'amine. Nature Chem 2, 159–160 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.565

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