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The palladium(II)-catalysed oxidative cyclization of the adducts of N-Boc-protected allylic amines with methyl glyoxylate proceeds well in the presence of molecular oxygen as the stoichiometric oxidant without the need of a co-oxidant, if Me2SO is used as the solvent.
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Benthem et al. (1994) studied this question.
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