CIS-CONFIGURATIONS AND TRANS-CONFIGURATIONS OF ALPHA,ALPHA'-DISUBSTITUTED PIPERIDINES AND PYRROLIDINES BY GC-FTIR - APPLICATION TO DECAHYDROQUINOLINE STEREOCHEMISTRY
Hm. Garraffo et al., CIS-CONFIGURATIONS AND TRANS-CONFIGURATIONS OF ALPHA,ALPHA'-DISUBSTITUTED PIPERIDINES AND PYRROLIDINES BY GC-FTIR - APPLICATION TO DECAHYDROQUINOLINE STEREOCHEMISTRY, Tetrahedron, 50(39), 1994, pp. 11329-11338
GC-FTIR spectroscopy provides a convenient, rapid method to distinguis
h cis- and trans-alpha,alpha'-disubstituted piperidines and pyrrolidin
es; the pyrrolidines usually first require N-methylation. Cis-isomers
exhibit significant Bohlmann bands, transisomers only very weak bands.
The method is also applicable to alkaloids containing a piperidine ri
ng. For example, a 2-propyl-5-methyldecahydroquinoline, named trans-19
5A, recently detected in skin extracts of a dendrobatid frog is shown
by GC-FTIR to have C(2) and C(8a) in a cis-orientation,