Lm. Harwood et Lc. Kitchen, TANDEM GENERATION AND INTRAMOLECULAR TRAPPING OF CHIRAL STABILIZED AZOMETHINE YLIDS WITH ALKYNE DIPOLAROPHILES, Tetrahedron letters, 34(41), 1993, pp. 6603-6606
Due to the steric contraints imposed upon the bridging chain by the th
ree-carbon linear unit associated with the alkyne, hex-5-ynal condense
s with (5R)-phenylmorpholin-2-one (1), and undergoes intramolecular 32 dipolar cycloaddition via the syn- azomethine ylid to furnish adduct
(2). This is in contrast to the anti-ylid pathway exhibited by the yl
id derived from (1) and hept-6-ynal, which furnishes (6); or similar r
eactions involving alkene dipolarophilic moieties.