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Attempts to prepare photochromic spiro[1,4]oxazines 5a-5c by the react
ion of isonitroso compounds 4a-4c with Fischer's base led instead to t
he 1,3,3-trimethylspiro[indoline-2 ,6'-[4'H]-5',6'-dihydro-4'-hydroxy-
1,2-oxazines] 7a-7c. In each case, a multinuclear NMR study confirmed
that the products were mixtures of the two possible diastereoisomers.
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