Photocyclization of NN-disubstituted benzoylacetamides and acetoacetamides
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- No. 19,p. 2054-2057
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19760002054
Abstract
NN-Dialkyl-benzoylacetamides (1a–e and j–n) and -acetoacetamides (1f–i), and N-methylbenzoylacetanilide (1o) undergo photocyclization involving δ-hydrogen abstraction by the ketone carbonyl group to give N-substituted 4-hydroxypyrrolidin-2-ones (2a–o) in high yields.Keywords
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