Current topics in the biomimetic alkaloid syntheses

Abstract

This article reviews synthetically efficient, elegant, and ingenious examples on the biomimetic syntheses of many skeletal types of alkaloids, covering the literature mainly published since 1997. The contents are arranged in the order of the biogenetic origin of the nitrogen in each alkaloid, i.e., the alkaloid derived from aliphatic amino acids and from aromatic amino acids, and then the pseudoalkaloids.