Yx. Wang et N. Castagnoli, DECYCLOPROPYLATION OF CYCLOPROPYL-4-HYDROXY-4-(2-METHYLPHENYL)PIPERIDINE N-OXIDE, Tetrahedron letters, 36(23), 1995, pp. 3981-3984
Treatment of cyclopropyl-4-hydroxy-4-(2-methylphenyl)piperidine N-oxid
e with trifluoroacetic anhydride (TFAA) yields the corresponding descy
clopropyl secondary amine in This reaction may serve as a model for th
e mechanism based inactivation of monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) by cyclo
propylamines which recently has been proposed to proceed via a polar m
echanism involving a flavin-amine adduct.