On the mechanism of allylic amination catalyzed by iron salts

RS Srivastava, KM Nicholas

Index: Srivastava, Radhey S.; Nicholas, Kenneth M. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1997 , vol. 119, # 14 p. 3302 - 3310

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Abstract

Iron salts catalyze the allylic amination of alkenes by arylhydroxylamines in moderate to good yields and with high regioselectivity resulting from double-bond transposition. The iron- catalyzed reaction of phenylhydroxylamine with representative alkenes in the presence of 2, 3-dimethylbutadiene, an effective PhNO trap, produces allyl amines exclusively, excluding the intermediacy of free PhNO in the amination reaction. The reaction of FeCl2, 3 with ...