Reactions of nitric oxide (NO) with amines in organic solvents were studied using Hantzsch dihydropyridines and aromatic primary amines as substrates. Hantzsch dihydropyridines are readily oxidized by nitric oxide to give the corresponding pyridines in quantitative yields. The addition of oxygen accelerates the reaction rate considerably. On the other hand, aromatic primary amines give deaminated products by the reaction with nitric oxide only in the presence of oxygen in ethereal solvents or chloroform.

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A catalytic asymmetric allylation of 3,4-dihydroisoquinoline was carried out with allyltrimethoxylsilane-Cu as the nucleophile in the presence of DTBM-SEGPHOS as the chiral ligand to afford corresponding chiral 1-allyltetrahydroisoquinoline derivatives in good yield and stereoselectivity. The allyl adduct thus obtained was applied to the synthesis of several isoquinoline alkaloids such as crispine A and homolaudanosine. The reaction was further used for the synthesis of the isoquinoline moiety of schulzeine A.

[reaction: see text] Catalytic asymmetric allylation of 3,4-dihydro-6,7-dimethoxyisoquinoline was carried out using allyltrimethoxysilane in the presence of Cu(I) and tol-BINAP. The allyl adduct thus obtained was transformed to a chiral synthetic intermediate for (-)-emetine in good yield. The procedure was applied to the total synthesis of ent-emetine.

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