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SUBMITTER: McGrath NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3513925 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McGrath Nicholas A NA Raines Ronald T RT
Chemical science 20120101 11
Diazo compounds, which can be accessed directly from azides by deimidogenation, are shown to be extremely versatile dipoles in 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions with a cyclooctyne. The reactivity of a diazo compound can be much greater or much less than its azide analog, and is enhanced markedly in polar-protic solvents. These reactivities are predictable from frontier molecular orbital energies. The most reactive diazo compound exhibited the highest known second-order rate constant to date fo ...[more]