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Treatment of 2,3,5,5-tetramethyl-3-hydroxy-1-pyrroline 1-oxide 6, prep
ared from butanone in six steps, with benzoyl chloride under Schotten-
Baumann conditions leads to an unprecedented dimerisation to give a sp
iro, tricyclic N-benzoyloxypyrrolidine in good yield.