Direct Primary Amination of Alkylmetals with NH-Oxaziridine.

ABSTRACT: A method for the primary electrophilic amination of primary, secondary, and tertiary organometallic substrates from a bench-stable NH-oxaziridine reagent is described. This facile and highly chemoselective transformation occurs at ambient temperature and without transition metal catalysts or purification by column chromatography to provide alkylamine products in a single step. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations revealed that, despite the basicity of alkylmetals, the direct NH-transfer pathway is favored over proton and O-transfer.

SUBMITTER: Behnke NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7803087 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature