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Preparation of Stable Bicyclic Aziridinium Ions and Their Ring-Opening for the Synthesis of Azaheterocycles
Published on: August 22, 2018
1-(2-Chloro-acet-yl)-3-methyl-2,6-diphenyl-piperidin-4-one
Abstract:
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(20)H(20)ClNO(2), contains two crystallographically independent mol-ecules of similar geometry. The piperidine ring adopts a distorted boat conformation in both mol-ecules, in which the N atom assumes an almost planar configuration.
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