Tetrahedron letters

N-methylanilines from benzylic azides

FJ Lopez, D Nitzan

Index: Lopez, Francisco J.; Nitzan, Dov Tetrahedron Letters, 1999 , vol. 40, # 11 p. 2071 - 2074

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Abstract

Benzylic azides are converted into N-methylanilines efficiently in the presence of a Bronsted or Lewis acid and Et3SiH. The combination of SnCl 4Et 3SiH and 4-n-butylbenzyl azide appears to form an aminodiazonium trichlorostannate (II), which undergoes the