Organic Letters 2006-08-03

Copper-catalyzed intermolecular hydroamination of alkenes.

Jason G Taylor, Neil Whittall, King Kuok Mimi Hii

Index: Org. Lett. 8 , 3561, (2006)

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Abstract

[reaction: see text] Regioselective additions of arylsulfonamides to vinylarenes, norbornene, and cyclohexadiene were achieved using a copper-diphosphine catayst under mild reaction conditions. These processes appear to be ligand-accelerated.