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Synthetic Communications
An International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Volume 4, 1974 - Issue 3
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Synthesis of dl-Meroquinene

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Pages 161-165 | Received 29 Mar 1974, Published online: 05 Dec 2006
 

Abstract

Meroquinene (1), a key degradation product of quinine and an important intermediate in the preparation of the cinchona and other alkaloids,1 has only recently been synthesized 2 even though attempts were made at its preparation for over thirty years. These early attempts were frustrated primarily by the difficulty encountered in the introduction of a potential vinyl group onto a piperidine ring. Alkylation of 3-car-bethoxy-N-benzoyl-4-piperidone (2) with either phenoxyethyl chloride3 or dimethylaminoethyl chloride (3)4 resulted in exclusive formation of the O-alkylated product, even though alkylation of the presumably analogous 2-carbethoxycyclohexanone with 3 gave nearly equal amounts of C- and O- alkylated materials.4 The use of other piperidone derivatives in this reaction was precluded by the report that attempts to alkylate 3-car-bethoxy-N-alkyl-4-piperidones gave only the quaternary nitrogen product.5

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