Jp. Alazard et al., COMPOUNDS INTERACTING WITH TUBULIN .1. SY NTHESIS OF ORTHO-ORTHO' SUBSTITUTED PHENYLPYRROLES WITH FREE OR RESTRICTED ROTATION, Bulletin de la Societe chimique de France, 130(6), 1993, pp. 779-787
The synthesis of ortho-ortho' substituted phenylpyrroles that are susc
eptible to isomerization of the biaryl type (atropisomerism) was perfo
rmed using a Michael addition of isocyanoacetates with nitrostyrenes.
Atropisomerism in phenylpyrroles 14 and 15 was studied by means of H-1
NMR spectroscopy using chiral lanthanide shift reagents (LSR). In th
e case of chiral phenylpyrrole 21, an evaluation of the interconversio
n parameters between diastereomers (k, DELTAG(T)) was attempted.