Cui Bo, Ren Jun, Wang Zhongwen
State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Synergetic Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Nankai University , 94 Weijin Road, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China.
J Org Chem. 2014 Jan 17;79(2):790-6. doi: 10.1021/jo402383a. Epub 2013 Dec 23.
A triflic acid-catalyzed formal [3 + 2] cycloaddition of cyclopropane 1,1-diesters with nitriles was developed. This reaction was expeditious, and the scope of the substituents in both cyclopropanes and nitriles was broad. This supplies an efficient and practical method for the synthesis of 1-pyrrolines.