摘要

A pyrimidine ring was discovered to aid formation of an azomethine ylide undergoing intramolecular cycloaddition reactions. This method enabled efficient synthesis of a novel tricyclic pyrimidine-piperidine-pyrrolidine scaffold from various pyrimidinemethyl amines and aldehydes in complete stereocontrol and could be rationalized by an S-shaped azomethine ylide intermediate.

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