Chemoselective reactions of vinylogous amides, and the synthesis of two Peripentadenia alkaloids

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4020(95)01051-3

Some chemoselective transformations of the vinylogous amide (E)-2-benzoylmethylene-1-(2-cyanoethyl)pyrrolidine (3a) and compounds derived from it have been investigated. Methodology developed during the course of these model studies has been applied to th