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Keywords:

  • Asymmetric synthesis;
  • Cycli­zation;
  • Enynes;
  • Stereoselective synthesis

Abstract

Chiral perhydrobenzoxazines derived from (–)-8-aminomenthol and containing a 1,6-enyne moiety participate in intramolecular diastereoselective Pauson–Khand reactions with diastereoselection that depends on the nature of the starting compounds. 3-Propargyl-2-vinyl-substituted perhydrobenzoxazines yielded the cyclization products with low diastereoselectivity except for compounds where the double bond was 1,2-disubstituted. Regioisomeric perhydrobenzoxazines with the acetylenic bond at C-2 and an allyl substituent at the nitrogen atom gave much better stereochemical discrimination.