Recent Uses of N,N-Dimethylformamide and N,N-Dimethylacetamide as Reagents

Abstract

N,N-Dimethylformamide and N,N-dimethylacetamide are multipurpose reagents which deliver their own H, C, N and O atoms for the synthesis of a variety of compounds under a number of different experimental conditions. The review mainly highlights the corresponding literature published over the last years.

Keywords

• N,N-dimethylformamide
• DMF
• N,N-dimethylacetamide
• DMAc
• amination
• amidation
• thioamidation
• formylation
• carbonylation
• cyanation
• insertion
• cyclization