Synthesis, Table of Contents Synthesis 2012; 44(9): 1410-1416DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1290504 paper © Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York A Concise Synthesis of 3-Arylated Di- and Tetrahydro-2H-2-benzazepin-1-ones; A New Synthetic Approach to the Homoprotoberberine Framework Stéphane Lebrun a Université Lille Nord de France, 59000 Lille, France, Fax: +33(3)20436309 Email: axel.couture@univ-lille1.fr b USTL, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Physique, EA CMF 4478, Bâtiment C3(2), 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France , Axel Couture* a Université Lille Nord de France, 59000 Lille, France, Fax: +33(3)20436309 Email: axel.couture@univ-lille1.fr c CNRS, UMR 8181 ‘UCCS’, Bâtiment C3(2), 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France , Eric Deniau a Université Lille Nord de France, 59000 Lille, France, Fax: +33(3)20436309 Email: axel.couture@univ-lille1.fr b USTL, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Physique, EA CMF 4478, Bâtiment C3(2), 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France , Pierre Grandclaudon a Université Lille Nord de France, 59000 Lille, France, Fax: +33(3)20436309 Email: axel.couture@univ-lille1.fr b USTL, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Physique, EA CMF 4478, Bâtiment C3(2), 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France › Author Affiliations Recommend Article Abstract Buy Article All articles of this category Abstract A variety of 3-arylated di- and tetrahydro-2H-2-benzazepin-1-ones were efficiently assembled through a sequence involving a Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reaction with enol phosphates derived from the corresponding benzazepine-1,3-diones. 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