Kt. Chang et al., Diastereoselective iodoamidation of 3-acetoxybut-1-enylamines: Synthesis of 3-acetoxy-4-iodo-2-(p-methoxybenzyl)pyrrolidines, HETEROCYCLE, 55(6), 2001, pp. 1173-1179
3 alpha -Acetoxy-4 alpha -iodo-2 alpha-(p-methoxybenzyl)pyrrolidine (2) and
its enanti-omer (3) were synthesized via diastereoselective iodoamidation,
starting from D- or L-tyrosine. The key step contains unfavorable 5-endo-t
rig cyclization and the diastereoselective addition of ethynylmagnesium bro
mide to aldehydes (9) by the chelation-controlled Cram cyclic model.