CONFORMATIONAL STUDY ON INDOLINE COMPOUNDS - STRUCTURES OF 2-PHENYL-3-ARYLIMINO-3H-INDOLE 1-OXIDE,1,2-DIHYDRO-2-PHENYL-2-BENZYL AND 2-TERT-BUTYL-3-PHENYLIMINO-3H-INDOLE 1-OXYLS
C. Rizzoli et al., CONFORMATIONAL STUDY ON INDOLINE COMPOUNDS - STRUCTURES OF 2-PHENYL-3-ARYLIMINO-3H-INDOLE 1-OXIDE,1,2-DIHYDRO-2-PHENYL-2-BENZYL AND 2-TERT-BUTYL-3-PHENYLIMINO-3H-INDOLE 1-OXYLS, Journal of heterocyclic chemistry, 30(3), 1993, pp. 637-642
Reacting 1-hydroxy-2-phenylindole with nitrosobenzene, 2-phenyl-3-phen
ylimino-3H-indole 1-oxide (1) is produced in only one of the two possi
ble diastereomers. The latter reacts with tert-butylmagnesium chloride
and benzylmagnesium chloride giving, after oxidation, the correspondi
ng aminoxyls which show the same configuration of the phenylimino grou
p at C-3 as in 1. This has been demonstrated by means of nmr spectrosc
opy and X-ray crystal structure and represents an unexpected stereospe
cific reaction.