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Photolysis of dipropyldiazirine and trapping of dipropylcarbene with piperidine

EL Tae, MS Platz

Index: Tae, Eunju Lee; Platz, Matthew S. Tetrahedron Letters, 1999 , vol. 40, # 15 p. 2875 - 2878

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Abstract

Photolysis (350 nm) of dipropyldiazirine in methylene chloride at 4° C produces a mixture of E and Z 3-heptene in 81% yield in an EZ ratio of 1.8. Tetrapropylazine was formed in less than 5% yield. Photolysis of dipropyldiazirine in the presence of piperidine leads to the