Comment on Enantioselective total synthesis of (?)-colchicine, (+)-demecolcinone and metacolchicine: determination of the absolute configurations of the latter two alkaloids by B. Chen, X. Liu, Y.-J. Hu, D.-M. Zhang, L. Deng, J. Lu, L. Min, W.-C. Ye and C.-C. Li, Chem. Sci., 2017, 8, 4961–4966

摘要

We note that some features of the NMR spectra deposited for the purported isomeric metacolchicines ( Chem. Sci. 8 , 4961 (2017)) are not compatible with the assignment of those isomers as being atrop-diastereomers. We suggest that there are no such isomeric metacolchicines as reported. The differences in the spectra could rather be a consequence of a (precedented) monomer/dimer equilibrium of metacolchicine in solution.