Synthetic Approaches to Benzophenanthridines

Benzo［c］ phenanthridine alkaloids occurring in the Fumariaceae, Papaveraceae, and Rutaceae. posses numerous pharmacological activities, such as antitumor. antimicrobal and antifungal activities. Thus, they have attracted much interests of chemists and as the result, several total syntheses of these heterocycle structure were accomplished. Among that, procedures which involve 3-arylisoquinoline intermediates are useful methods and these synthons could be also applied to the preparation of other alkaloids. (omitted)