Azoarene activation for Schmidt-type reaction and mechanistic insights

The Schmidt reaction enables nitrogen insertion across an aldehyde or ketone substrate by frequently using azide reagents. Here, the authors show a Schmidt reaction of aryldiazonium salts as a replacement of azide reagents to access skeletally diverse cyclic lactams.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fan-Tao Meng, Ya-Nan Wang, Xiao-Yan Qin, Shi-Jun Li, Jing Li, Wen-Juan Hao, Shu-Jiang Tu, Yu Lan, Bo Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35141-4
Description
Summary:The Schmidt reaction enables nitrogen insertion across an aldehyde or ketone substrate by frequently using azide reagents. Here, the authors show a Schmidt reaction of aryldiazonium salts as a replacement of azide reagents to access skeletally diverse cyclic lactams.
ISSN:2041-1723