Facile preparation of alpha-amino ketones from oxidative ring-opening of aziridines by pyridine N-oxide.
The oxidative ring-opening reaction of a variety of activated aziridines by pyridine N-oxide provided alpha-amino ketones or alpha-amino aldehydes in good yields.
Luo
Zhi-Bin
ZB
State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 354 Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, P. R. China.
Wu
Jing-Yu
JY
Hou
Xue-Long
XL
Dai
Li-Xin
LX