Synthetic routes to benzosuberone-based fused- and spiro-heterocyclic ring systems

Abstract

Natural products containing a benzosuberone nucleus are important class of medicinal and pharmaceutical compounds and have recently attracted a considerable amount of attention due to their remarkable broad-spectrum biological activity. The present review endeavors to highlight the progress in the synthesis of benzosuberones and their fused, as well as spiro, ring systems in the literature up to 2015.