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Diastereomeric N-(imidazol-2-ylmethylidene)neomenthane-3-sulfinamides were obtained from enantiomerically pure neomenthanethiol in three steps. The compounds obtained added Grignard reagents at the C=N bond. After separation of diastereomers, an acid resolution gave enantiomerically pure primary 1-(imidazol-2-yl)alkanamines. In this scheme, the neomenthane fragment played the role of a chiral auxiliary.
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Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1566—1573, June, 2016.
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Sudarikov, D.V., Krymskaya, Y.V., Slepukhin, P.A. et al. Synthesis of chiral 1-(imidazol-2-yl)alkanamines using neomenthanethiol as a chiral auxiliary. Russ Chem Bull 65, 1566–1573 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11172-016-1483-z
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