Thermal reactions of azidoformates

DS Breslow, TJ Prosser, AF Marcantonio…

Index: Breslow,D.S. et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1967 , vol. 89, p. 2384 - 2390

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Abstract: Kinetic studies have shown that azidoformates decompose thermally in a variety of solvents in a clean first-order reaction, the rate-determining step being evolution of nitrogen and formation of a nitrene. The nitrene reacts with saturated hydrocarbons by insertion into a CH bond and by abstraction of two hydrogen atoms from adjacent carbons. The insertion reaction is highly selective, the primary: secondary: tertiary reactivity being in the ratio of 1: ...