A. Barco et al., A ONE-POT SYNTHESIS OF NITROHYDROXYLATED PYRROLIDINE AND PIPERIDINE RING-SYSTEMS BY TANDEM MICHAEL-HENRY REACTION, Tetrahedron letters, 35(49), 1994, pp. 9293-9296
Nitrohydroxylated pyrrolidine and piperidine ring systems are convenie
ntly obtained through a one-pot procedure involving sequential Michael
-Henry reaction between nitroethylene and a nitrogen nucleophile incor
porating a suitably placed precursor for the generation either reducti
vely or oxidatively of an aldehyde group which is directly trapped in
the subsequent nitroaldolization step.