Synthesis 2016; 48(24): 4477-4488
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1562616
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Expedient and Diastereoselective Synthesis of Substituted 6,6a-Dihydroisoindolo[2,1-a]quinolin-11(5H)-ones

Zainab Al-Jaroudi
a   Department of Chemistry, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, B4P 2R6, Canada
,
Prabhu P. Mohapatra
a   Department of Chemistry, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, B4P 2R6, Canada
,
T. Stanley Cameron
b   Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS,B3H 4R2, Canada   Email: amitabh.jha@acadiau.ca
,
Amitabh Jha*
a   Department of Chemistry, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, B4P 2R6, Canada
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Publication History

Received: 20 May 2016

Accepted after revision: 17 July 2016

Publication Date:
07 September 2016 (online)


Abstract

Further synthetic utility of 3-substituted N-arylisoindolinones obtained from N-aryl-3-hydroxyisoindolinones and alkyl aryl ketones under Lewis acid mediated anhydrous conditions is reported. Herein, substituted 6,6a-dihydroisoindolo[2,1-a]quinolin-11(5H)-ones were synthesized from 3-substituted isoindolinones following a NaBH4 ketone reduction and carbocation-mediated intramolecular electrophilic aromatic substitution using BF3·OEt2. Representative final products were unambiguously characterized by single-crystal X-ray crystallography.

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