Reaction of Azides with Dichloroindium Hydride: Very Mild Production of Amines and Pyrrolidin-2-imines through Possible Indium−Aminyl Radicals
作者:Luisa Benati、Giorgio Bencivenni、Rino Leardini、Daniele Nanni、Matteo Minozzi、Piero Spagnolo、Rosanna Scialpi、Giuseppe Zanardi
DOI:10.1021/ol0606637
日期:2006.6.1
Organic azides are easily reduced to the corresponding amines by reaction with dichloroindium hydride under very mild conditions and in a highly chemoselective fashion. gamma-Azidonitriles give rise to outstanding five-membered cyclizations affording pyrrolidin-2-imines. A rationalization of the overall experimental data cannot exclude the occurrence of competitive radical and nonradical pathways, but certain results are, however, soundly consistent with the intermediacy of indium-bound nitrogen-centered radicals.