title: Iron-promoted C-C bond formation in the total synthesis of natural products and drugs.
abstract: Iron salts are inexpensive and almost innocuous; they are thus the promoters of choice, even in stoichiometric amounts, for the formation of carbon-carbon bonds in the backbone of complex molecules. This review encompasses the key role of iron complexes in the total synthesis of some natural products or pharmacologically important compounds.
authors.affiliation: COBRA UMR 6014 Normandie Univ, Univ Rouen, INSA Rouen and CNRS 1 rue Lucien Tesnière, 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan, France. julien.legros@univ-rouen.fr.
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Legros
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Figadère
mesh_terms: D001688:Biological Products / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D007501:Iron / Q000737:chemistry*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D002244:Carbon; D007501:Iron