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Synfacts 2011(9): 0930-0930  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1260926
Synthesis of Natural Products and Potential Drugs
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Synthesis of (±)-Decursivine

Contributor(s): Steven V. Ley, Matthew O’Brien
M. Mascal*, K. V. Modes, A. Durmus
University of California, Davis, USA
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Publication Date:
19 August 2011 (online)

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Significance

Decursivine, which was isolated from the Vietnamese plant Raphidophora decur­siva shows activity at 4.4 g/mL against chloroquine resistant strains of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum which causes malaria. This synthesis was published back-to-back with a paper by Jia and co-workers (Synfacts 2011, 929) and uses the same key Witkop cyclization cascade.