Abstract
Thermal rearrangement of aminoimine, 1, followed by hydrogenation produced 1-phenyl-2-pyrrolidinyl cyclopentylamine 3. The structure and stereochemistry of this novel amine 4 was identified by x-ray crystallography of the 2-chloro-6-iodo-nicotinamide derivative as a hydrogen maleate salt.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors thank Ed Bacon for his support and encouragment. Thanks go to Dr. Amy Sarjeant (JHU X-ray data collection) and Torsten Herbertz (Molecular Modeling and Computational Science) for their help.