Neoxaline is a bio-active Aspergillus japonicus isolate. It is an antimitotic agent and shows weak inhibitory activity of blood platelet aggregation. It stimulates the central nervous system.[1][2] It has been synthesized through the "highly stereoselective introduction of a reverse prenyl group to create a quaternary carbon stereocenter using (−)-3a-hydroxyfuroindoline as a building block, construction of the indoline spiroaminal via cautious stepwise oxidations with cyclizations from the indoline, assembly of (Z)-dehydrohistidine, and photoisomerization of unnatural (Z)-neoxaline to the natural (E)-neoxaline."[3]
^Ideguchi, Tetsuya; Yamada, Takeshi; Shirahata, Tatsuya; Hirose, Tomoyasu; Sugawara, Akihiro; Kobayashi, Yoshinori; O̅mura, Satoshi; Sunazuka, Toshiaki (19 August 2013). "Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Neoxaline". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135 (34): 12568–12571. doi:10.1021/ja406657v. PMID23957424.