Author's Organization:Kobe Women's College of Pharmacy Kobe Women's College of Pharmacy Kobe Women's College of Pharmacy Kobe Women's College of Pharmacy Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Synthesis of optically active sesquiterpene alkaloids, patchoulipyridine and related compounds, was accomplished by application of a method for constructing cycloalkenopyridines by thermal rearrangement of O-2-butenyloximes.