Sa. Weissman et al., EFFICIENT SYNTHESIS OF N-ARYLPIPERAZINONES VIA A SELECTIVE INTRAMOLECULAR MITSUNOBU CYCLODEHYDRATION, Tetrahedron letters, 39(41), 1998, pp. 7459-7462
A practical two pot synthesis of N-arylpiperazinones from the correspo
nding aniline is described. The key transformation is a selective intr
amolecular Mitsunobu cyclodehydration of an amidoalcohol intermediate.
A series of N-arylpiperazinones were prepared in yields up to 89%. (C
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