title: Azatriquinanes: Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity.
abstract: Azatriquinane, a tricyclic amine with rigid, hemispherical topology, is synthesized in six steps from pyrrole. This first example of a [2.2.2]cyclazine can be oxidatively dimerized to a novel, highly strained heptacycle or oxidized with chlorine to give an azatriquinacene, a theoretical precursor to diazadodecahedrane via Woodward dimerization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K., and Department of Chemistry, University of Wales Cardiff, P.O. Box 912, Cardiff CF1 3TB, U.K.
authors.forename: Nicholas M.
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authors.lastname: Hext
authors.forename: Jens
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authors.lastname: Hansen
authors.forename: Alexander J.
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authors.lastname: Blake
authors.forename: David E.
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authors.lastname: Hibbs
authors.forename: Michael B.
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authors.lastname: Hursthouse
authors.forename: Oleg V.
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authors.lastname: Shishkin
authors.forename: Mark
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authors.lastname: Mascal