| Abstract: | Summary. N-Alkylation of certain angularly substituted heterocycles by C2- and C3-units provided appropriate precursors to construct stereoselectively the erythrinanone and several erythrinanone type analogues by intramolecular Friedel-Crafts acylation. The resulting aromatic ketones were catalytically reduced affording the corresponding parent frameworks including the hitherto unknown tetracyclus A-norschelhammerane. On the other hand, the stereoselective reduction of the carbonyl moiety offered a convenient approach to 11-hydroxylated erythrinanes with the natural occurring  -configuration. The structures and the stereochemistry of the target compounds were proved by NMR spectroscopy.Part of PhD thesis, LMU München, D |
