Abstract

An efficient approach to spirocyclic oxindole architecture with vicinal quaternary carbon centers is described. The reaction of 2-allyloxyindolin-3-ones with cyanomethylphosphonate at low reaction temperature proceeds smoothly with consecutive olefination, isomerization, deacylation, and anion-accelerated Claisen rearrangement to give the 3,3-disubstituted oxindoles with vicinal quaternary all-carbon centers in high yield and diastereoselectivity. The oxindoles are readily converted into more synthetically advanced spiro-products.

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