Synthesis applications of aza-cope rearrangements.: Stereocontrolled synthesis of cyclohepta [b]pyroolidines1
β Scribed by Larry E Overman; E.Jon Jacobsen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 226 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0040-4039
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β¦ Synopsis
pyrroles can be prepared in stereocontrolled fashions by the reaction of 2-amino-l-(l-phenylvlnyl)cyclohexanols with formaldehyde and acid.
Recent papers from our laboratory have described the use of "Mannich-directed" cationic aza-Cope rearrangements for the preparation of octahydroindolones by an unusual ring-enlarging pyrrolrdlne annulation reaction (eq 1, n=l). lr2 In this Letter, we report that the analogous rearrangement of cyclohexanols provides a convenient entry to cyclohepta[b]pyrrolidlnes (eq 1, n=2).
This ring system, 3 although not common, is found in several natural products, for example, the antihypertensive alkaloid gelsemlne. 4
We moreover report that the ring-
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