title: Copper malonamide complexes and their use in azide-alkyne cycloaddition reactions.
abstract: We report a rare example of the malonamide functionality being used as a ligand in copper catalysis. We have ligated a homologous series of these O,O-chelating architectures to copper, investigated their structure and exploited them in azide-alkyne cycloaddition reactions for the step-growth synthesis of oligo(triazoles) and in the synthesis of small organic azoles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, UKBA2 7AY. r.l.webster@bath.ac.uk.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Bent
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Mahon
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Webster