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Intermolecular radical addition and addition/cyclization reactions of alkoxyamines onto nonactivated alkenes
Christian Wetter1, Katja Jantos, Katharina Woithe
1Department of Chemistry, Philipps-University Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany.
Organic Letters
|August 2, 2003
Abstract:
[reaction: see text] Alkoxyamines A, which are readily prepared from commercially available starting materials, undergo efficient thermal radical carboaminoxylations onto various nonactivated alkenes to provide 1,4-functionalized malonates B in good to excellent yields. The experiments are very easy to conduct. The carboaminoxylations can be combined with radical cyclization and fragmentation processes.