Ts. Bailey et al., [2,3] SIGMATROPIC REARRANGEMENT OF 1-VINYLIC TETRAHYDROISOQUINOLINE N-YLIDES AND N-OXIDES, Tetrahedron letters, 34(20), 1993, pp. 3331-3334
[2.3] Sigmatropic rearrangement of the N-ylides from the 1-vinyl and 1
-(1-propenyl) tetrahydroisoquinolinium salts 3a and 3b at room tempera
ture in acetonitrile gave high yields of the functionalised 3-benzazon
ine derivatives 6a (90%: E/Z = 19) and 6b (93%: E/Z = 2) respectively.
The N-oxide analogues 4a and 4b gave the 2.3-benzoxazepines 8a and 8b
, together with the first representative of the 4,3-benzoxazonine syst
em, 9b, from 4b.