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Keywords:

  • carbinols;
  • nitrogen heterocycles;
  • nucleophilic addition;
  • reaction intermediates;
  • reaction mechanisms

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Sufficiently stable intermediates formed in the reaction of N-acylpyrroles (1) with hydride and Grignard reagents can undergo further synthetic transformations and chromatographic purification to enable the generation of pyrrolecarbinols 2 in 76–95 % yields [Eq. (1)].