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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: Tetrahedron. 2011 Oct 29;67(52):10249–10260. doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2011.10.026

Scheme 15.

Scheme 15

Radical debromination and synthesis of compound 61 en route to cortistatin A.

Key: a) Ac2O, pyridine, DMAP, CH2Cl2 (70% from 42); b) Br2, H2O, THF, 0 °C; c) AIBN, n-Bu3SnH, C6D6, 70 °C, ~10% from 58; d) CeCl3•7H2O, NaBH4, MeOH, 0 °C; e) Ac2O, pyridine, DMAP, CH2Cl2.