2,3-Dichloro-5,6-dicyano-1,4-benzoquinone → HCID 54441914, compound

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To a suspension of (+)-(4aR)-(10bR)-8-(3-nitrophenyl)-10b-methyl-1,2,3,4,4a,5,6,10b-octahydrobenzo[f]-quinolin-3-one (264 mg, 0.786 mmol), in 3.0 mL of 1,4-dioxane was added DDQ (196 mg, 1.1 equiv.) followed by bistrimethyl-silyltrifluoromethyl acetamide (911 mg, 4.5 equiv.), and the solution was stirred at room temperature for 2 h, then heated at 100° for 20 h. The mixture was cooled to room temperature, diluted with ethyl acetate, and washed with 2M sodium hydroxide. The organic phase was washed with brine, dried over sodium sulfate, concentrated and chromatographed on silica gel (ethyl acetate eluent) to give, after trituration from ether/hexanes, 55 mg (21%) of the title compound as an orange solid. mp 205°-206°. FDMS m/e=334. α[D]589 =+57.23 (c=0.66, chloroform).

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