Tetra-ethyl 1,1'-(ethane-1,2-di-yl)bis-(2,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrrole-3,4-dicarboxyl-ate)
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Preparation of Contiguous Bisaziridines for Regioselective Ring-Opening Reactions
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Abstract:
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(26)H(36)N(2)O(8), comprises two independent mol-ecules. In each mol-ecule, the two pyrrole rings are linked by a -CH(2)CH(2)- bridge, with dihedral angles between the two pyrrole rings of 14.5 (3) and 16.4 (3)° in the two mol-ecules. Each pyrrole ring carries 2- and 5-methyl substituents and eth-oxy-carbonyl groups at the 3- and 5-positions.
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