Journal of the American Chemical Society

The preparation and properties of oxaziranes

WD Emmons

Index: Emmons Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1957 , vol. 79, p. 5739,5749

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Citation Number: 372

Abstract

The preparation of a wide variety of oxaziranes by oxidation of the appropriate imine with peracetic acid is discussed. These compounds represent a previously unknown heterocycle, a carbon-nitrogen-oxygen three-membered ring. The evidence for assignment of this structure is reviewed, and a general survey is made of some of the reactions characteristic of oxaziranes. Depending upon the particular structure involved, acid hydrolysis of ...