Organic Chemistry Portal

Abstracts

Search:

1-Substituted 5-Aminotetrazoles: Syntheses from CNN3 with Primary Amines

Young-Hyuk Joo and Jean'ne M. Shreeve*

*Department of Chemistry, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844-2343, Email: jshreeveuidaho.edu

Y.-H. Joo, J. M. Shreeve, Org. Lett., 2008, 10, 4665-4667.

DOI: 10.1021/ol8019742


Abstract

The reaction of cyanogen azide and primary amines generates imidoyl azides as intermediates in acetonitrile/water. After cyclization, these intermediates gave 1-substituted aminotetrazoles in good yield.

see article for more examples



Key Words

tetrazoles


ID: J54-Y2008-3110