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Chemical studies on tobacco smoke XXIII. Synthesis of carbon-14 labelled myosmine, nornicotine and N′-nitrosonornicotine

✍ Scribed by M. W. Hu; W. E. Bondinell; D. Hoffmann


Book ID
102369394
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1974
Tongue
French
Weight
319 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-2135

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Abstract

dl‐Nornicotine‐2′‐^14^C was synthesized in four steps. Nicotinic acid (carboxyl‐^14^C) was first esterified with diazomethane to yield methyl nicotinate (carboxyl‐^14^C). The ester was condensed with 3‐lithio‐N‐trimethylsilyl‐2‐pyrrolidone to give 3‐nicotinoyl‐N‐trimethyslsilyl‐2‐pyrrolidone (ketone carbonyl‐^14^C), which was hydrolyzed and decarboxylated in concentrated hydrochloric acid to give myosmine‐2′‐^14^C.

Reduction of myosmine‐2′^14^C gave nornicotine‐2′‐^14^C. Reaction of nornicotine‐2′‐^14^C in hydrochloric acid with sodium nitrite gave N′‐nitrosonornicotine‐2′‐^14^C. Purification of labelled myosmine, nornicotine, and N′‐nitrosonornicotine was accomplished by preparative thin layer chromatography.