Pyrrolidine N-Oxides by Stereoselective
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Andreas M. Palmer; Volker Jäger
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The addition of Grignard reagents to D-erythro-4-pentenose N-benzyl nitrone 5, which is easily accessible from D-ribose, furnishes ω-unsaturated hydroxylamines that readily undergo Cope-House cyclization to afford pyrrolidine N-oxides. The stereoselectivity of the addition step is altered by either