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The sponge-derived alkaloid dibromoagelaspongin was prepared from a dihydrooroidin derivative by exploiting the Pummerer reaction twice in succession. Oxidative cyclization of the substrate's pyrrole-2-carboxamide function into the imidazole moiety was achieved in a regiospecific manner to establish both C-N bonds to C(6) of the target.
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Feldman et al. (2009) studied this question.
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