1. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5246, Institut de Chimie et Biochimie Moléculaires et Supramoléculaires, CPE Lyon, Villeurbanne, France;2. University of Basel, Department of Chemistry, Basel, Switzerland
Abstract:
A variety of strained α‐alkylidene‐γ‐lactams were synthesized by palladium(0)‐catalyzed intramolecular C(sp3)?H alkenylation from easily accessible acyclic and monocyclic bromoalkene precursors. These lactams are valuable intermediates for accessing various classes of mono‐ and bicylic alkaloids containing a pyrrolidine ring, as illustrated with the synthesis of an advanced model of the marine natural product plakoridine A and of the indolizidine alkaloid δ‐coniceine.