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An extremely rapid, low cost, and environmentally friendly entry into the pyridoacridine family of alkaloids has been devised, as demonstrated here by the first total synthesis of styelsamine B (3) and its oxidation to the quinoneimine cystodytin J (4). The known reaction of cystodytin J with methanethiol makes this a formal synthesis of diplamine. [reaction: see text]
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