Diastereoselectivity of polar and radical couplings in electrophilic substitutions of rigid 2-lithio-N-methylpyrrolidines?

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Pub Date: 2006-10-20 DOI: 10.1039/B608013H

Abstract

N-Methyl trans-fused perhydroisoindolines substituted with a tributylstannyl group in the 2-position have been prepared and used as precursors of the corresponding α-aminoorganolithiums. The steric course of the reactions of these and other conformationally rigid organolithiums with various electrophiles is summarized and compared with the steric course of the unsubstituted analogs. A mechanistic rationale for the steric course of electrophilic substitutions of these organolithiums is discussed. Pathways involving both polar electrophilic substitutions and radical couplings were observed with different electrophiles.

Graphical abstract: Diastereoselectivity of polar and radical couplings in electrophilic substitutions of rigid 2-lithio-N-methylpyrrolidines
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