@article{7a269db3ddce493c88377ad00b233a4f,
title = "An unexpected ring contraction of two nitroaryl pro-drugs: conversion of N-(nitroaryl)-3-chloropiperidine derivatives into N-(nitroaryl)-2-chloromethylpyrrolidines",
abstract = "Treatment of the N-nitroaryl-3-hydroxypiperidine derivatives 12 and 13 with thionyl chloride afforded the corresponding N-aryl-2-chloromethylpyrrolidines 5 and 15 via a ring-contraction process involving an intermediate aziridinium ion.",
author = "Philip Burke and Wong, {Lai Chun} and William Clegg and Ross Harrington and Terence Jenkins and Richard Knox and Ian Meikle and Stephen Stanforth",
year = "2010",
month = jul,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1016/j.tetlet.2010.05.095",
language = "English",
volume = "51",
pages = "3918--3921",
journal = "Tetrahedron Letters",
issn = "0040-4039",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "30",
}