Intermolecular aromatic substitution by aryl nitrenes

RA Abramovitch, SR Challand…

Index: Abramovitch,R.A. et al. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1972 , vol. 37, # 17 p. 2705 - 2710

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Abstract

Thermally generated aryl nitrenes have been shown to undergo intermolecular aromatic substitutions provided that the nitrene is made sufficiently electrophilic by the introduction of an electron-withdrawing substituent in the aromatic nucleus and the aromatic substrate is sufficiently nucleophilic. The nitrenes were generated both by the thermolysis of aryl azides and from monomeric nitrosobenzenes and triethyl phosphite. The rate of firstorder ...