Chlorospermines A and B are biologically interesting acridone natural products and recently isolated from Glycosmis chlorosperma.We report here a convergent approach to construct the tetracyclic core of the natural products.The two fragments are assembled together through Sonogashira coupling,and a cis-triene intermediate was prepared by using hydrosilylation/desilylation.A 6p-electrocyclization/aromatization sequence served as the key step of the synthesis,which formed the tetrasubstituted arene motif in one pot.
