lysergic acid synthesis

  1. G.Patton

    (+)-Lysergic acid total synthesis

    Introduction Lysergic acid, the basic fragment derived from the ergot alkaloids, has been synthesized in a fourteen sequence beginning with 3-beta-carboxyethylindole. The starting material was converted to the intermediate 1-benzoyl-5-keto-1,2,2a-3,4,5-hexahydrobenz-[cd]-indole (3), containing...
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