On the mechanism of thermal cyclisation of dialkylaminomethyleneketenes to give 1H-pyrrol-3(2H)-one derivatives
Abstract
The observed loss of optical activity in the pyrrolones (7), (8), and (10) formed by flash vacuum pyrolysis of the chiral substrates (5), (6), and (9) requires that a discrete intermediate is involved in the hydrogen transfer-cyclisation steps which lead to these products.