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Syntheses of acetonitrile ligated copper complexes with perfluoroalkoxy aluminate as counter anion and their catalytic application for olefin aziridination

Y Li, B Diebl, A Raith, FE Kühn

Index: Li, Yang; Diebl, Bernd; Raith, Alexander; Kuehn, Fritz E. Tetrahedron Letters, 2008 , vol. 49, # 41 p. 5954 - 5956

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Abstract

Acetonitrile ligated copper complexes with perfluoroalkoxy aluminate Al {OC (CF3) 3} 4-as weakly coordinating counter anion are successfully synthesized. Aziridination of various olefins with PhINTs catalyzed by copper (II) complex [Cu (II)(NCCH3) 6][Al {OC (CF3) 3} 4] 2 affords good to excellent yields (up to 96%) and very high turnover frequency (higher than 5000h− 1) under mild conditions.