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3.2 – Oxazoline removal<br />

However, the diphenyl oxazoline lends itself <strong>to</strong> hydrogenolysis since both C–X bonds<br />

are benzylic, although the literature precedent for this reaction contained only the more<br />

labile C–O benzylic bond. Whilst it would not return the amino alcohol, the main<br />

advantage of this method is that it would involve a single reagent with very well<br />

unders<strong>to</strong>od reactivity with other functional groups.<br />

3.2.2.a Model compounds<br />

Ph<br />

Ph<br />

Ph<br />

Ph<br />

O<br />

N<br />

O<br />

N<br />

101m<br />

O<br />

201<br />

Scheme 3.23 – model oxazolines<br />

Whilst we are interested in cleaving 2-alkyloxazolines all oxazolines studied so far,<br />

and most of those found in the literature, are 2-aryloxazolines. 2-Cyclohexyloxazoline<br />

101m and enone 201 will be used <strong>to</strong> study the removal of the oxazoline moiety. <strong>The</strong><br />

former is a simple system which can be quickly synthesised, whilst the latter contains a<br />

challenging quaternary centre and functionality that will be encountered in a future<br />

synthesis. Enone 201 can readily be synthesised from diene 102b (Table 3.6).<br />

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