Synthesis 2012; 44(9): 1315-1322
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1290755
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Electrooxidative Cyclization of Hydroxyamino Compounds Possessing a Benzyl Group

Mitsuhiro Okimoto*
Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Chemistry, Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Kitami, Koen-cho, Hokkaido 090-8507, Japan, Fax: +81(0157)247719   Email: okimotmt@mail.kitami-it.ac.jp
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Kousuke Ohashi
Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Chemistry, Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Kitami, Koen-cho, Hokkaido 090-8507, Japan, Fax: +81(0157)247719   Email: okimotmt@mail.kitami-it.ac.jp
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Haruki Yamamori
Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Chemistry, Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Kitami, Koen-cho, Hokkaido 090-8507, Japan, Fax: +81(0157)247719   Email: okimotmt@mail.kitami-it.ac.jp
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Shinnosuke Nishikawa
Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Chemistry, Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Kitami, Koen-cho, Hokkaido 090-8507, Japan, Fax: +81(0157)247719   Email: okimotmt@mail.kitami-it.ac.jp
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Masayuki Hoshi
Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Chemistry, Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Kitami, Koen-cho, Hokkaido 090-8507, Japan, Fax: +81(0157)247719   Email: okimotmt@mail.kitami-it.ac.jp
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Takashi Yoshida
Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Chemistry, Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Kitami, Koen-cho, Hokkaido 090-8507, Japan, Fax: +81(0157)247719   Email: okimotmt@mail.kitami-it.ac.jp
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Publication History

Received: 19 January 2012

Accepted after revision: 20 February 2012

Publication Date:
30 March 2012 (online)


Abstract

Several novel 2-aryl-1,3-oxazinane and 2-aryl-1,3-oxazolidine derivatives were synthesized from N-benzyl-2-piperidineethanols and N-benzyl-2-piperidinemethanols, respectively, by using electrooxidative methods in methanol. For these reactions, the yields of the corresponding cyclized compounds were significantly increased by using catalytic amounts of iodide ions. In contrast, 3-dialkylamino-1-phenylpropanols afforded the expected cyclic 6-phenyl-1,3-oxazinane derivatives using only a small excess of base.