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Practical Synthetic Procedures for the Iron-Catalyzed Intermolecular Olefin Aminohydroxylation Using Functionalized
Cheng-Liang Zhu1, Deng-Fu Lu1, Jeffrey D Sears1
1Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, 100 Piedmont Avenue SE, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
Abstract:
A set of practical synthetic procedures for the iron-catalyzed intermolecular olefin aminohydroxylation reactions in gram scale is reported. In these transformations, a bench-stable functionalized hydroxylamine is applied as the amination reagent. This method is compatible with a broad range of synthetically valuable olefins including those that are incompatible with the existing aminohydroxylation methods. It also provides valuable amino alcohol building blocks with regio- and stereo-chemical arrays that are complementary to known methods.
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