Primary alcohols palladium bromide

Catalytic hydrogenation of (23-12) over palladium on charcoal results in the scission of the weak N—O bond and the formation of amino alcohol (24-1). This is converted to a pyrrolidine by an internal alkylation reaction. Thus, reaction of the intermediate with carbon tetrabromide and triphenyl phosphine presumably converts the alcohol to a bromide internal displacement by the primary amine forms the five-membered ring (24-2). Alkylation of that amine with the complex bromo amide (24-3) then affords the endothehn antagonist atrasentan (24-4) [25]. 

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