Elusive ethynyl azides: trapping by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition and decomposition to cyanocarbenes

Klaus Banert; Manfred Hagedorn; Jens Wutke; Petra Ecorchard; Dieter Schaarschmidt; Heinrich Lang

doi:10.1039/c0cc00079e

Elusive ethynyl azides: trapping by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition and decomposition to cyanocarbenes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Jun 21;46(23):4058-60. doi: 10.1039/c0cc00079e.

Authors

Klaus Banert¹, Manfred Hagedorn, Jens Wutke, Petra Ecorchard, Dieter Schaarschmidt, Heinrich Lang

Affiliation

¹ Chemnitz University of Technology, Organic Chemistry, Strasse der Nationen 62, 09111 Chemnitz, Germany. klaus.banert@chemie.tu-chemnitz.de

PMID: 20527724
DOI: 10.1039/c0cc00079e

Abstract

Although they decompose rapidly to produce cyanocarbenes, ethynyl azides were generated from (chloroethynyl)arenes and trapped for the first time by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition at cyclooctyne.