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SUBMITTER: Motiwala HF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3921892 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Motiwala Hashim F HF Fehl Charlie C Li Sze-Wan SW Hirt Erin E Porubsky Patrick P Aubé Jeffrey J
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20130607 24
A method for carrying out the intramolecular Schmidt reaction of alkyl azides and ketones using a substoichiometric amount of catalyst is reported. Following extensive screening, the use of the strong hydrogen-bond-donating solvent hexafluoro-2-propanol was found to be consistent with low catalyst loadings, which ranged from 2.5 mol % for favorable substrates to 25 mol % for more difficult cases. Reaction optimization, broad substrate scope, and preliminary mechanistic studies of this improved v ...[more]