Wei Zhang, G. Pugh
Apr 21, 2003
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Tetrahedron
Abstract
A general method to construct a variety of nitrogen heterocycles is introduced. 2-Bromobenzoic acids or acid chlorides are used as the common building blocks to couple with appropriate nitrogen-containing compounds. Sequential aryl radical cyclizations including conjugate additions, spirocyclizations, homolytic and ipso aromatic substitutions, and 1,5-hydrogen atom transfers are employed to prepare tri- and tetracyclic isoindolinones, benzolactams, isoquinolinones, azabenzoisocoumarins, and bridged-azabicyclic compounds.