Journal of the American Chemical Society

Thermal Reactions of Substituted Aryl Azides: The Nature of the Azene Intermediate

G Smolinsky

Index: Smolinsky,G. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1961 , vol. 83, p. 2489 - 2493

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Citation Number: 54

Abstract

Six aryl azides were prepared and thermally decomposed. In two cases, o-azidocumetie (XIX) and o-azidophenylcyclohexane (XX), the pyrolysis products were identified as 3- methpl-2, 3-dihydroindole(XXI and hexahydrocarbazole, respectively. It is proposed that these products were formed by insertion of an azene group into the CH bond of a primary and secondary carbon, respectively. The mechanism of these reactions is discussed in ...