Chemical Communications

The reductive coupling of tertiary amides to give enediamines using PhMe 2 SiLi

I Fleming, U Ghosh, SR Mack, BP Clark

Index: Fleming, Ian; Ghosh, Usha; Mack, Stephen R.; Clark, Barry P. Chemical Communications, 1998 , # 6 p. 711 - 712

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Abstract

PhMe2SiLi reacts with tertiary amides to give enediamines, which can be isolated in good yield when the α-carbon is branched; the enediamines can be hydrolysed more or less easily to α-amino ketones, isomerised from Z to E, oxidised to dienediamines and isomerised to amino enamines.