Indolizidine skeleton, formation

The formation of the y-lactams is almost perfectly diastereoselective if cyclic a-amino aldehydes or the aldehyde prepared from valine are used as starting materials. As it is shown in the following scheme, the electroreduction of the obtained optically pure y-lactams followed by the reduction with LAH yields the corresponding optically pure pyrrolizidine and indolizidine skeletons. 

Heterocycles. While several reports deal with formation of furan derivatives by reaction of 2-diazo-l,3-cyclohexanediones and alkynes which are substituted with electron-withdrawing or electron-donating groups, an a-pyridone synthesis based on an analogous reaction of Af-(a-diazoacyl)amides is applicable to the elaboration of the indolizidine skeleton, and accordingly, a synthesis of ipalbidine. ... 

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