Electrophilic amination of methylbenzenes with sodium azide in trifluoromethanesulfonic acid

GI Borodkin, IR Elanov, VG Shubin

Index: Borodkin; Elanov; Shubin Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2009 , vol. 45, # 6 p. 934 - 935

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Abstract

We previously found that the nature of solvent and Lewis acid strongly affects the yield of the amination products of methylbenzenes in the system NaN3–MHlgn–HCl [1–4]. The most effective solvents were methylene chloride and 1, 2-dichloroethane [1–3], as well as ionic liquids [4]. Takeuchi et al.[5] reported on electrophilic amination of arenes using hydrazoic acid and CF3SO3H–CF3CO2H–CHCl3 mixture as solvent.