Guozhong Ye, Chun-Ling Chen, Sabornie Chatterjee
2010
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Synthesis
Abstract
The reactions of 2-methylimidazoline with excess benzoyl chlorides under mild conditions generated N,N'-diacyl-β-keto cyclic ketene-N,N'-acetals. Conversely, the corresponding reactions of 1,2-dimethylimidazoline under the same conditions stereoselectively formed the ring-opened (Z)-vinyl benzoates. The latter reactions feature the formation of carbon-carbon bonds, carbon-nitrogen bonds, and carbon-oxygen bonds in one sequential cascade.