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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Chem. 2014 Apr 13;6(5):448–452. doi: 10.1038/nchem.1917

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Retrosynthetic analysis of staurosporine analogues based on butatriene-enabled cycloadditions. With the goal of step-economically generating a library of simplified staurosporine analogues with selective kinase inhibitory function (FOS: function-oriented synthesis), we envisaged a 1,2,3-butatriene (V) reacting first in a [5+2] cycloaddition to provide a 1,3-diene ready for a subsequent [4+2] cycloaddition.