Iodine-catalyzed diazo activation to access radical reactivity

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pan Li, Jingjing Zhao, Lijun Shi, Jin Wang, Xiaodong Shi, Fuwei Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04331-4