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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 19.
Published in final edited form as: Acc Chem Res. 2011 Oct 21;45(6):826–839. doi: 10.1021/ar200194b

Scheme 2.

Scheme 2

A) A family of marine natural products (9–15) that could all be retrosynthetically traced back to a common indole–carvone intermediate (16); B) Innate indole–enolate coupling yielding the common indole–carvone intermediate 16.6,7