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Synthetic methods for the construction of azaspirocyclic building blocks

Rashmi Dalvi and F. Christopher Pigge. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

The azaspiro[4.5]decane ring system is found in many natural products. This ring system can be envisioned as a dearomatized product obtained from the intramolecular nucleophilic addition reaction of the suitable arene substrate. Transition metal mediated synthetic protocols are well studied in this regard. We have found that arene-Ru complexes participate in tandem spirocyclization/ HWE olefination reactions in the presence of a suitable base and aldehyde. The dearomatized products were obtained from these spirocyclic complexes using effective oxidative demetalation protocols. The similar ring system was also constructed using hypervalent iodine reagents.


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