著者
衣川 雅彦 新井 仁 小笠 剛裕 河西 政次
出版者
The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan
雑誌
有機合成化学協会誌 (ISSN:00379980)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.57, no.5, pp.401-406, 1999-05-01 (Released:2009-11-16)
参考文献数
16
被引用文献数
2 5

A convenient large-scale preparation of the indoloquinone antitumor agent EO9 has been developed. A Nenitzescu reaction has been used to prepare the indole skeleton having all functional groups necessary for its conversion into a key intermediate in a short synthesis of the indoloquinone EO9. Moreover, the hazardous reagent, Fremy's salt was replaced by safer one, [bis (trifluoroacetoxy) iodo] benzene, for oxidation of the 4-aminoindole to the corresponding indoloquinone, and high quality EO9 was easily obtained by choosing acetonitrile as the solvent in the substitution reaction of the methoxy group with ethylenimine to introduce the aziridinyl group into the precursor.