Nitrogen dynamics and reactivity of chiral aziridines: Generation of configurationally stable aziridinyllithium compounds

Chemistry - A European Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 4992-5003

  Degennaro, Leonardo ^a   Mansueto, Rosmara ^a   Carenza, Elisa ^b   Rizzi, Rosanna ^c   Florio, Saverio ^a   Pratt, Lawrence M ^d   Luisi, Renzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d FISK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ketoaziridines; lithium; nitrogen dynamics; NMR spectroscopy; stereoselectivity

Indexed keywords

AZIRIDINES; CHIRAL AZIRIDINES; CONFIGURATIONALLY; DFT CALCULATION; DIASTEREOMERIC; DYNAMIC NMR; ELECTROPHILES; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HETEROCYCLES; KETOAZIRIDINES; LITHIATED AZIRIDINES; LITHIATION; LONE PAIR; NITROGEN ATOM; NITROGEN DYNAMICS; NITROGEN INVERSION; NMR SPECTROSCOPY; OXAZOLIDINES; OXAZOLINES;

DYNAMICS; LITHIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; STEREOSELECTIVITY;

NITROGEN;

AZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM; NITROGEN; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; OXAZOLE DERIVATIVE; OXAZOLIDINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

AZIRIDINES; LITHIUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITROGEN; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; OXAZOLES; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 79954614820     PISSN: 09476539     EISSN: 15213765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201003424     Document Type: Article

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