The scope and limitations of the alkylation of racemic and nonracemic 2-lithiopiperidines and-pyrrolidines, obtained by transmetalation of the corresponding stannanes, is reported. These organolithiums react with a variety of electrophiles to afford 2-substituted pyrrolidines and piperidines in excellent yield. With primary alkyl halides the reaction proceeds with net inversion of configuration at the metal-bearing carbon in the piperidines; in the ...
[Lewis, Frederick D.; Dasharatha Reddy; Schneider, Siegfried; Ga, Michael Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1991 , vol. 113, # 9 p. 3498 - 3506]