Highly asymmetric cobalt-catalyzed aziridination of alkenes with trichloroethoxysulfonyl azide (TcesN3)

Subbarayan Velusamy, Joshua V. Ruppel, Shifa Zhu, Jason A. Perman, X. Peter Zhang

Chemical Communications · 2009 · 161 citations · 39 references

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Abstract

A Co(II)-based catalytic system has been developed for asymmetric aziridination of alkenes with trichloroethoxysulfonyl azide (TcesN3) under mild conditions, forming the corresponding N-Tces-aziridines in high yields and excellent enantioselectivities.

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