Trans-2,5-Dialkylated pyrrolidine

The products from alkene hydroamination are inherently lightly functionalized. To address this possible deficiency. Professor Marks also reported (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125 15878, 2003) the cyclization of amino dienes such as 5. The cyclizations proceed with high selectivity for, the cis-2,6-dialkyl piperidines, and with a little lower selectivity for the trans 2,5-dialkyl pyrrolidine. The product alkenes are -95% E, the balance being a little Z alkene and the terminal alkene. 

The venom of the fire ant, Solenopsis punctaticeps, contains several 2,5-dialkyl-pyrrolidines and -pyrrolines their structures have been settled by combined g.c-m.s., and confirmed by syntheses employing the Hofmann-Loffler reaction on the corresponding primary amines.7 A new synthesis of 2,5-dialkyl-pyrrolidines via lithiated iV-nitrosopyrrolidine and two stages of alkylation, followed by removal of the nitroso-group, should be applicable to the synthesis of the venom components. The major products are trans in stereochemistry.8... 

When the starting material is a trans- -(2-cyano-l-oxoethyl)-2,5-bis(niethoxymethoxymcthyl)-pyrrolidine dialkylation, followed by hydrolysis, results in 2-alkyl-2-cyanoalkanoic acids 1510. 

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