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A new synthesis of pyrroles
Béatrice Quiclet-Sire1, Frédérique Wendeborn, Samir Z Zard
1Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique associé au CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau, France.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 26, 2002
Abstract:
The radical reaction between an N-ethylsulfonylenamide and an alpha-xanthyl ketone gives an intermediate gamma-keto imine which spontaneously ring-closes to the pyrrole.