Synlett 2012; 23(16): 2400-2404
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1317115
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

One-Step Method for the Synthesis of Nitroisoindoles via 1,3-Dipolar Cyclo­addition of Azomethine Ylides to Polynitrobenzenes

Alexey M. Starosotnikov*
a   N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Leninsky pr. 47, Moscow 119991, Russia, Fax: +7(499)135 5328   Email: alexey41@list.ru
,
Maxim A. Bastrakov
a   N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Leninsky pr. 47, Moscow 119991, Russia, Fax: +7(499)135 5328   Email: alexey41@list.ru
,
Vadim V. Kachala
a   N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Leninsky pr. 47, Moscow 119991, Russia, Fax: +7(499)135 5328   Email: alexey41@list.ru
,
Pavel A. Belyakov
a   N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Leninsky pr. 47, Moscow 119991, Russia, Fax: +7(499)135 5328   Email: alexey41@list.ru
,
Ivan V. Fedyanin
b   A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Vavilova Str. 28, Moscow, 119991, Russia
,
Svyatoslav A. Shevelev
a   N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Leninsky pr. 47, Moscow 119991, Russia, Fax: +7(499)135 5328   Email: alexey41@list.ru
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Publication History

Received: 28 June 2012

Accepted after revision: 24 July 2012

Publication Date:
14 September 2012 (online)


Abstract

A new one-step method for the synthesis of nitroiso­indoles was developed on the basis of 1,3-dipolar cycloadditions of unstabilized N-alkyl azomethine ylides with di- and trinitrobenzenes.

 
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