Reaction of 2-methylene-3-oxoquinuclidine with nucleophilic reagents

The salts and quaternary derivatives of 2-methylene-3-hydroxyquinuclidine readily add nucleophilic reagents because of the high polarity and polarizability of the carbon-carbon double bond, which are due to the overall electron-acceptor effect of the positively charged nitrogen atom and the carbonyl group. The double bond is substantially deactivated in the base, and the addition of nucleophilic reagents is hindered.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 10, pp. 1370–1376, October, 1977.     

Synthetic studies in the field of the porphyrins. synthesis of a mesoporphyrin and of a diacetyldeuteroporhyrin

A method is proposed for the synthesis of porphyrins based on the cyclization of a tetrapyrrole system with methyl and formyl groups at the ends of the molecule. The synthesis of mesoporphyrin IX and diacetyldeuteroporphyrin IX has been effected.