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
Chemical Communications Pub Date : 05/10/2010 00:00:00 , 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.
