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2.1 – A new reaction<br />

Ph<br />

OMe<br />

No DMPU<br />

No isolable products<br />

or starting material<br />

O N<br />

OMe<br />

104b<br />

i) i-PrLi, THF<br />

ii) MeI<br />

Ph<br />

O<br />

N<br />

OMe<br />

Ph<br />

O<br />

N<br />

OMe<br />

Me<br />

+ DMPU<br />

OMe<br />

105<br />

24%<br />

OMe<br />

7%<br />

106<br />

Ph<br />

Me<br />

OMe<br />

Ph<br />

Me<br />

OMe<br />

O<br />

N<br />

Me<br />

O<br />

Me<br />

N<br />

22% 4%<br />

OMe<br />

OMe<br />

107 108<br />

Scheme 2.2 – dearomatising addition using the Meyers oxazoline<br />

<strong>The</strong> contrast between the two sets of conditions was very pleasing; a similarly strong<br />

distinction was seen with the 2-phenyl oxazoline. 64 Although the Meyers’ oxazoline<br />

returned a significant amount of diene 105 (stereochemistry assigned by analogy <strong>to</strong><br />

known compounds), it was accompanied by greater amounts of difunctionalised<br />

products 107 and 108. It was clear that the reaction of the Meyers oxazoline was<br />

plagued by side reactions that were not observed with bis-phenyl oxazoline 101a.<br />

para-Anisole 101b was treated under both sets of conditions, and equally stark results<br />

were seen (Scheme 2.3). Addition <strong>to</strong> the electron rich system was very encouraging;<br />

the structure of 102b was again confirmed by crystallography (Scheme 2.6).<br />

Ph Ph<br />

Ph Ph Ph Ph<br />

O<br />

N<br />

OMe<br />

i) i-PrLi (1.5 eq)<br />

THF, −78 °C<br />

ii) MeI<br />

O<br />

N<br />

Me<br />

OMe<br />

O<br />

N<br />

Me<br />

OMe<br />

Additive 102b 103b<br />

None 22% 73%<br />

DMPU 70% 18%<br />

101b<br />

102b<br />

103b<br />

Scheme 2.3 – effect of DMPU on addition <strong>to</strong> aryl oxazolines<br />

52

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