“…The brown residue obtained after removing the solvent under reduced pressure was subjected to preparative thick-layer chromatography using chloroform as the eluent. The slowest moving band contained 43 mg (14%) of a clear oil whose structure was assigned as 2-methyl-3-phenyl-5vinyl-A2-pyrroli"ie (35) on the basis of its spectroscopic properties: NMR (CC14,100 MHz) 8.12 (s, 3 H), 6.88 (dd, 1 H, J = 17.6,6.0 Hz), 6.56 (dd, 1 H,J= 17.6, 4.5 Hz), 5.24 (dd, 1 H, J = 6.0, 4.5 Hz), 4.72-5.00 (m. 2 ), 4.08 (ddd. 1 H. J = 17.6,11.0,6.0 Hz), 3.50 (broad s, 1 H, exchanged w.th D20), 2.48-2.80 (m, 3 ), When the crude reaction mixture was subjected to preparative vapor-phase chromatography (15% SE-30 column at 170 °C), two additional components were isolated.…”