Tandem conjugate additions and 3-aza-cope rearrangements of tertiary allyl amines and cyclic α-vinylamines with acetylenic sulfones. Applications to simple and iterative ring expansions leading to medium and large-ring nitrogen heterocycles

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4630-4637

  Weston, Mitchell H ^a   Nakajima, Katsumasa ^a   Back, Thomas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; AMINATION; AMINES; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; EXPANSION; METHANOL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; NITROGEN; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOTODISSOCIATION; RATE CONSTANTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

(E ,3E) PROCESS; ALLYL AMINE (PVA); AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; CONJUGATE ADDITIONS; COPE REARRANGEMENTS; CYCLIC AMINES; DISSOCIATIVE MECHANISMS; ELECTRON WITHDRAWING SUBSTITUENTS; HAMMETT PLOTS; ITERATIVE PROCESSING; METHOXY; NEGATIVE CHARGING; NITROGEN HETEROCYCLES; NOVEL ROUTE; RATE DETERMINING STEP (RDS); RING-OPENING; SYNTHESIS (OF CHIRAL IONIC LIQUIDS); VINYL AMINE (PVAM); VINYLAMINES;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

ACETYLENE DERIVATIVE; ALLYL COMPOUND; AMINE; AMPHOLYTE; AZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; METHANOL; MOTUPORAMINE A; MOTUPORAMINE B; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; SULFONE DERIVATIVE; VINYL DERIVATIVE;

ADDITION REACTION; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONJUGATION; COPE REARRANGEMENT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISSOCIATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTUM YIELD; REACTION ANALYSIS; RING OPENING;

EID: 45249096033     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo800600a     Document Type: Article

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