Publication Date:
2018-05-18
Description:
Iodine-catalyzed diazo activation to access radical reactivity Iodine-catalyzed diazo activation to access radical reactivity, Published online: 17 May 2018; doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04331-4 Radical reactivity of diazo compounds, useful organic building blocks, is yet underexplored. Here, the authors report an iodine-catalyzed radical activation of diazo compounds affording a variety of substituted cyclopropanes, pyrroles and epoxides under either thermal- or photo-initiated conditions.
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics