O. Kulinkovich et al., NEW SYNTHETIC ROUTE TO THE ALKALOID WITHASOMNINE BY RING TRANSFORMATION OF A FUNCTIONALIZED CYCLOPROPANOL VIA THE PARENT PYRROLO[1,2-B]PYRAZOLE, Tetrahedron letters, 37(7), 1996, pp. 1095-1096
Withasomnine has been prepared by rearrangement of 1-(3-chloropropyl)-
cyclopropanol into 5,6-dihydro-4H-pyrrolo[1,2-b]pyrazole, followed by
bromination and [NiCl2(dppp)]-catalyzed phenylation.