Iron salts catalyze the allylic amination of alkenes by arylhydroxylamines in moderate to good yields and with high regioselectivity resulting from double-bond transposition. The iron- catalyzed reaction of phenylhydroxylamine with representative alkenes in the presence of 2, 3-dimethylbutadiene, an effective PhNO trap, produces allyl amines exclusively, excluding the intermediacy of free PhNO in the amination reaction. The reaction of FeCl2, 3 with ...
