Cascade radical cyclisations involving enamide double bonds. A synthetic approach to azasteroids
Abstract
Treatment of the enamide selenoesters 8 and 14 with Bu3SnH–AIBN is shown to lead to the nitrogen tricycle 9 (63%) and the D-homo-12-azasteroid 16 (45%) respectively, by way of serial stereoselective 6-endo-trig radical cyclisations.