Pa. Procopiou et Rm. Highcock, A NOVEL OXIDATIVE REARRANGEMENT OF A PENTASUBSTITUTED PYRROLE THAN UNSATURATED HYDROXY GAMMA-LACTAM, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (3), 1994, pp. 245-247
Treatment of a pentasubstituted bromopyrrole with N-bromosuccinimide r
esulted in a novel oxidative rearrangement involving insertion of oxyg
en. debromination and migration of an isopropyl group to give -5-oxo-3
-(4-pyridyl)-1H-pyrrol-1-yl]propionitrile, an X-ray crystallographic s
tructural determination of which is described.