Synthetic exploitation of the ring-opening of 3,4-dinitrothiophene, IX - Pyrrolidines, pyrrolines and pyrroles from 1,4-diaryl-2,3-dinitro-1,3-butadienes via a 5-endo-trig cyclization
C. Dell'Erba et al., Synthetic exploitation of the ring-opening of 3,4-dinitrothiophene, IX - Pyrrolidines, pyrrolines and pyrroles from 1,4-diaryl-2,3-dinitro-1,3-butadienes via a 5-endo-trig cyclization, EUR J ORG C, (6), 2000, pp. 903-912
The reactions between 1,4-diaryl-2,3-dinitro-1,3-butadienes 1a-d and primar
y alkylamines gave high yields of N-alkyl-2,5-diaryl-3-alkylamino-4-nitropy
rrolidines 2 as pure all-trans diastereomers via an unusually favoured 5-en
do-trig ring closure. The stereochemistry of compounds 2 has been attribute
d through an X-ray crystal structure analysis of the acetyl derivative 5 of
2ai. Amine elimination from 2 gave the N-alkyl-2,5-diaryl-3-nitro-3-pyrrol
ines 3 which could be easily aromatized to the corresponding pyrroles 4.