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Preparation of Stable Bicyclic Aziridinium Ions and Their Ring-Opening for the Synthesis of Azaheterocycles
Published on: August 22, 2018
Crystal structure of 1-[(2,4,6-triiso-propyl-phen-yl)sulfon-yl]aziridine
Lena Knauer1, Christopher Golz1, Carsten Strohmann1
1Fakultät für Chemie und Chemische Biologie, Technische Universität Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 6, 44227 Dortmund, Germany.
Abstract:
The title compound, C17H27NO2S, exhibits a distorted geometry of the aromatic ring with elongated bonds at the ipso-C atom. The S atom deviates from the aromatic ring plane by 0.393 (4) Å. Similar to this, the adjacent isopropyl groups are bent out of the aromatic ring plane by -0.125 (4) and -0.154 (4) Å. Even the distant isopropyl group in para-position to the sulfonyl moiety shows a slight deviation from the ring plane of 0.111 (5) Å. These distortions, which are caused by the bulky substituents, can also be observed in related sulfonyl-aziridine structures.
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