The Journal of organic chemistry

Selective conversion of diallylanilines and arylimines to quinolines

J Jacob, WD Jones

Index: Jacob, Josemon; Jones, William D. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2003 , vol. 68, # 9 p. 3563 - 3568

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Citation Number: 42

Abstract

A variety of diallylanilines are shown to undergo cobalt-carbonyl catalyzed rearrangement to quinolines. Diallylanilines are also used as allyl transfer reagents to convert benzaldimines into quinolines. Substitution in the 2-and 3-positions of the quinoline is featured in all transformations.