One pot synthesis of bridgehead amino alcohols from diamantoid hydrocarbons

An efficient approach for the synthesis of amino alcohols directly from cage hydrocarbons has been developed. Multigram scalability, good yields and one-pot procedure, that utilize readily available reagents along with synthetic convenience showed its usefulness. The proposed one-pot method includes sequential reactions of cage hydrocarbon with nitric acid, further amination of intermediate nitroxy derivative with urea, followed by oxidation of previously generated amine to amino alcohol on addition of conc. H2SO4.