Indole Alkaloids: Spirooxindole presents the multistep synthesis of natural products using schematic diagrams. This approach provides a quick and easy way to review and understand new and novel synthetic strategies to construct structural frameworks of natural products. Natural product synthesis is a fascinating research area due to the unique structural architecture and bioactivities of natural products. A volume in the Visual Guides to Natural Product Synthesis series, this book presents the schematic total syntheses of natural products containing "spirooxindole" core structure.Spirooxindole natural products are interesting to synthetic chemists due to their vast structural diversity and broad biological spectrum. A number of spirooxindole motifs have been prepared in lab both via stereoselective and racemic approaches following multistep synthetic protocols. This book covers the spirooxindole molecules through visual diagrams, highlighting the key steps involved in total, formal and semi-syntheses. The spirooxindole visual guide covers Brevianamide A and B, Citrinadin A and B, Coerulescine and Horsfiline, Elacomine and Isoelacomine, Gelsemine, Paraherquamide A and B, Rynchophylline, Isorynchophylline, Spirotryprostatin A and B and Strychnofoline.

The visual layouts provide quick and easy access to the developed synthetic routes towards the targeted spirooxindoles. This book is an essential reference for researchers working in the area of organic synthesis and natural products, especially those who are involved in the development of new, efficient and novel methodologies for natural product synthesis.