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A smooth rearrangement of N-p-toluenesulfonyl 2-tert- butyldiphenylsilylmethyl-substituted azetidines into N-p-toluenesulfonyl 3-tert-butyldiphenylsilyl-substituted pyrrolidines
Narhe, Bharat D.,Sriramurthy, Vardhineedi,Yadav, Veejendra K.
, p. 4390 - 4399 (2012/07/14)
The rearrangement of N-p-toluenesulfonyl 2-tert-butyldiphenylsilylmethyl- substituted azetidines into 3-tert-butyldiphenylsilyl-substituted pyrrolidines under Lewis acid conditions in dichloromethane involves 1,2-migration of silicon through a siliranium ion. The formation of siliranium ion was discovered not to be in concert with σC-N cleavage from stereochemical analysis of the pyrrolidine products formed from 3- and 4-substituted-2-tert- butyldiphenylsilylmethyl azetidines and also from the optical rotation data and chiral HPLC analysis of the pyrrolidine product formed from N-p-toluenesulfonyl 2(R)-tert-butyldiphenylsilylmethyl azetidine. The formation of sterically less hindered siliranium ion is followed by its SN2 opening by the internal nitrogen nucleophile. Oxidative cleavage of σC-Si bond leads to the formation of 3-hydroxypyrrolidines.