title: A New and Efficient Approach to the Synthesis of Nicotine and Anabasine Analogues.
abstract: A straightforward and practical approach was established for the synthesis of nicotine and anabasine analogues by the cyclization of mesylated 1-(3-pyridinyl)-1,4, and 1,5-diol derivatives to form the pyrrolidino or piperidino fragments. Nicotine analogue (S)-15 was prepared with good enantioselectivity using the developed azacyclization procedure of nonracemic (R)-1-pyridin-3-yl-butane-1,4-diol, which was obtained by the borane-mediated reduction of ketone 12 in the presence of the spiroborate ester derived from diphenyl prolinol and ethylene glycol.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico-Humacao, CUH Station, Humacao, Puerto Rico 00791-4300, USA.
authors.forename: Kun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Margarita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ortiz-Marciales
authors.forename: Melvin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Jesús
authors.forename: Viatcheslav
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Stepanenko