Chemistry Letters

A new method for deoxygenation of tertiary amine N-oxides with acetic formic anhydride

N Tokitoh, R Okazaki

Index: Tokitoh, Norihiro; Okazaki, Renji Chemistry Letters, 1985 , p. 1517 - 1520

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Citation Number: 13

Abstract

Trialkylamine N-oxides and N, N-dialkylarylamine N-oxides were readily deoxygenated with acetic formic anhydride in dichloromethane at room temperature to give the corresponding tertiary amines in high yields, while heteroaromatic N-oxide and sulfoxides were not affected.