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Preparation of Stable Bicyclic Aziridinium Ions and Their Ring-Opening for the Synthesis of Azaheterocycles
Published on: August 22, 2018
Construction of azacycles based on endo-mode cyclization of allenes
Chisato Mukai1, Minoru Kobayashi, Shoko Kubota
1Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Takara-machi 13-1, Kanazawa 920-0934, Japan. cmukai@kenroku.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
A new procedure for constructing monocyclic five- and six-membered azacycles by the endo-mode ring-closing reaction of allenylazido derivatives under neutral conditions has been developed. The azabicyclo[m.n.0] compounds were prepared by applying this newly developed procedure. The seven-membered azacycle was prepared when the allene possessing an unsubstituted carboxyl amido functionality was submitted to the basic conditions. In addition, indole and quinoline skeletons were synthesized using this procedure.
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