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Isomerisation of α-alkyl (Me, n-Pr, i-Pr, Bn) N,N-dimethylhydrazone derivatives of 8-methyl-8-azabicyclo-[3.2.1]octane (tropane) gave two isomers (E,exo Z,exo) while of 9-azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane (granatane) three isomers (E,exo Z,exo and E,endo), excepting 2-isopropyl granatane. Relative free energies of isomeric hydrazones, at B3LYP/6-31G(d), provided satisfactory reproduction of isomer distributions for granatanes only. The thermodynamically preferred configuration for the 2-alkyl substituent was exo. The granatanone N,N-dimethylhydrazone was deuterated in D2O significantly faster than the tropinone analogue. The differences in two hydrazone series were rationalised using calculated ΔG's of tautomeric enhydrazines. Deuteration (Li-azaenolate or in D2O) led to exo (axial) α-deutero hydrazones of tropinone and granatanone. Crystal structures of tropane derived hydrazones, tropinone, 2-benzyltropinone and 3-granatanone salts were reported and used for assignment of configurations. Crystallization provided E,endo configured α-methyl, α-benzyl tropane hydrazones contrary to 2-isopropyltropane (remained E,exo). Crystallographic analysis, NMR and DFT calculations allowed configurational assignment to all experimentally accessible diastereomers of α-alkylated tropinone and granatanone hydrazones.

Several chiral secondary N -benzhydrylamines were synthesized in good yields (68–92%) without racemization by the direct alkylation of amines with benzhydryl chloride under solvent-free conditions. Using the solvent-free conditions ( R )- N -benzhydryl-1-phenylethylamine was obtained with the highest yield (92%), purified on ion-exchange resin, and converted to its hydrochloride salt. The resulting chiral amine hydrochloride was transformed into lithium amide/lithium chloride mixture used in asymmetric deprotonations of N -benzyl analogues of tropinone and granatanone followed by aldol reactions giving products in high ­diastereomeric purities (up to 96%) and enantiomeric excesses of 77 to 96%.

The title compounds, C21H22BrNO2, are isomeric 8-benzyl-2-[(4-bromophenyl)(hydroxy)methyl]-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3-ones. Compound (I), the (±)-exo,syn-(1RS,2SR,5SR,9SR) isomer, crystallizes in the hexagonal space groupR\overline{3}, while compounds (II) [the (+)-exo,anti-(1R,2S,5S,9R) isomer] and (III) [the (±)-exo,anti-(1RS,2SR,5SR,9RS) isomer] crystallize in the orthorhombic space groupsP212121andPna21, respectively. The absolute configuration was determined for enantiomerically pure (II). For the noncentrosymmetric crystal of (III), its absolute structure was established. In the crystal structures of (I) and (II), an intramolecular hydrogen bond is formed between the hydroxy group and the heterocyclic N atom. In the crystal structure of racemic (III), hydrogen-bonded chains of molecules are formedviaintermolecular O—H...O interactions. Additionally, face-to-edge π–π interactions are present in the crystal structures of (I) and (II). In all three structures, the piperidinone rings adopt chair conformations and theN-benzyl substituents occupy the equatorial positions.