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SUBMITTER: Kundu S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3743661 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20120831 36
High-valent copper-nitrene intermediates have long been proposed to play a role in copper-catalyzed aziridination and amination reactions. However, such intermediates have eluded detection for decades, preventing the unambiguous assignments of mechanisms. Moreover, the electronic structure of the proposed copper-nitrene intermediates has also been controversially discussed in the literature. These mechanistic questions and controversy have provided tremendous motivation to probe the accessibilit ...[more]