V. Derdau et al., AMINE N-OXIDES DERIVED FROM ALKALOIDS AS CHIRAL PROMOTERS IN ENANTIOSELECTIVE PAUSON-KHAND REACTIONS, Heterocycles, 48(7), 1998, pp. 1445-1453
The novel indolizino[3,4-b]quinoline N-oxide (12) was prepared and cha
racterized by X-Ray crystal structure determination. Compound (12) and
sparteine N-oxides (8-10) were employed as chiral promoters in the Pa
uson-Khand cocyclization of various alkynes (1) with norbornene (4) to
the bicyclic cyclopentenones (6) with enantioselectivities up to 33 %
ee.