Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Iron-catalyzed carboazidation of alkenes and alkynes

  • Haigen Xiong,
  • Nagarajan Ramkumar,
  • Mong-Feng Chiou,
  • Wujun Jian,
  • Yajun Li,
  • Ji-Hu Su,
  • Xinhao Zhang,
  • Hongli Bao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07985-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Carboazidation of alkenes and alkynes holds the promise to construct valuable, functionalized molecules. Here, the authors report a general and efficient iron-catalyzed carboazidation of both alkenes and alkynes enabled by t-butyl perbenzoate.