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- Title
Imidazotetrazines as Weighable Diazomethane Surrogates for Esterifications and Cyclopropanations.
- Authors
Svec, Riley L.; Hergenrother, Paul J.
- Abstract
Diazomethane is one of the most versatile reagents in organic synthesis, but its utility is limited by its hazardous nature. Although alternative methods exist to perform the unique chemistry of diazomethane, these suffer from diminished reactivity and/or correspondingly harsher conditions. Herein, we describe the repurposing of imidazotetrazines (such as temozolomide, TMZ, the standard of care for glioblastoma) for use as synthetic precursors of alkyl diazonium reagents. TMZ was employed to conduct esterifications and metal‐catalyzed cyclopropanations, and results show that methyl ester formation from a wide variety of substrates is especially efficient and operationally simple. TMZ is a commercially available solid that is non‐explosive and non‐toxic, and should find broad utility as a replacement for diazomethane.
- Subjects
DIAZOMETHANE; METHYL formate; ORGANIC synthesis; ESTERIFICATION; DIAZONIUM compounds; CYCLOPROPANATION
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2020, Vol 132, Issue 5, p1873
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.201911896