A simple copper catalyst for both aziridination of alkenes and amination of activated hydrocarbons with chloramine-T trihydrate

…, PC Taylor, S Challenger, AM Derrick

Index: Albone, David P.; Aujla, Pavandeep S.; Taylor, Paul C.; Challenger, Stephen; Derrick, Andrew M. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1998 , vol. 63, # 25 p. 9569 - 9571

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Abstract

In 1967 Kwart and Kahn reported the copper-catalyzed decomposition of benzenesulfonyl azide in the presence of cyclohexene to yield products consistent with a nitrenetransfer mechanism (eq 1). 1 Both the aziridine 1 and the allylic amination 2 products are synthetically very interesting, and throughout the 1980s the groups of Breslow and of Mansuy sought catalysts which led to higher yields and selectivities for each of these two ...