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Highly efficient chemical fixations of carbon dioxide and carbon disulfide by cycloaddition to aziridine under atmospheric pressure

A Sudo, Y Morioka, E Koizumi, F Sanda, T Endo

Index: Sudo, Atsushi; Morioka, Yosuke; Koizumi, Eri; Sanda, Fumio; Endo, Takeshi Tetrahedron Letters, 2003 , vol. 44, # 43 p. 7889 - 7891

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Abstract

Cycloaddition of aziridine with carbon dioxide was successfully catalyzed by alkali metal halide or tetraalkylammonium halide to give the corresponding 5-membered cyclic urethane, 1, 3-oxazolidin-2-one, selectively. The reaction can be performed at ambient temperature under atmospheric pressure. Analoguous reaction of aziridine with carbon disulfide also successfully gave the corresponding 5-membered cyclic dithiourethane, 1, 3- ...