Tomooka Katsuhiko, Suzuki Masaki, Shimada Maki, Yanagitsuru Syun-ichi, Uehara Kazuhiro
Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan.
Org Lett. 2006 Mar 2;8(5):963-5. doi: 10.1021/ol053141k.
Nine-membered diallylic cyclic amines and amides have remarkably stable planar chirality. The transformation of enantiomerically enriched amides provides optically active nitrogen heterocycles containing stereogenic centers in a stereospecific fashion.