Synthesis of phenanthroindolizidine core was efficiently achieved through a pathway involving hetero Diels-Alder reaction of α-allenylchalcogenoketenes, generated in situ by thermal [3,3] sigmatropic rearrangement of alkynyl propargyl sulfides or selenides, with cyclic imines and the subsequent iodine-assisted photochemical cyclization.
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