Direct Stereospecific Synthesis of Unprotected NH and N-Me Aziridines from Olefins

…, H Gao, QL Xu, M Yousufuddin, D Devarajan…

Index: Jat, Jawahar L.; Paudyal, Mahesh P.; Gao, Hongyin; Xu, Qing-Long; Yousufuddin, Muhammed; Devarajan, Deepa; Ess, Daniel H.; Kurti, Laszlo; Falck, John R. Science, 2014 , vol. 343, # 6166 p. 61 - 65

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Abstract

Abstract Despite the prevalence of the NH aziridine motif in bioactive natural products and the clear advantages of this unprotected parent structure over N-protected derivatives as a synthetic building block, no practical methods have emerged for direct synthesis of this compound class from unfunctionalized olefins. Here, we present a mild, versatile method for the direct stereospecific conversion of structurally diverse mono-, di-, tri-, and ...