RSC Advances

Nanocrystalline zinc peroxide mediated unprecedented nitrene transfer: an expeditious access to N-tosylaziridines

S Verma, SL Jain

Index: Verma, Sanny; Jain, Suman L. RSC Advances, 2013 , vol. 3, # 43 p. 19830 - 19833

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Abstract

An unprecedented zinc peroxide (ZnO2) assisted synthetic strategy is reported for the synthesis of N-tosylaziridines from alkenes by using N-tosyliminotriphenylphosphorane (Ph3PNTs) as a nitrene transfer reagent under mild reaction conditions. The reaction of zinc peroxide with Ph3PNTs yielded a zinc oxaziridine intermediate which subsequently reacts with alkenes to give corresponding N-tosylaziridines in high to excellent yields.