Organometallic reactions of α-haloimines as a useful tool in organic synthesis

✍ Scribed by Norbert de Kimpe; Bart de Corte; Roland Verhe; Laurent de Buyck; Niceas Schamp

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 204 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)80111-8

✦ Synopsis

The reaction of organometallic reagents, e.g. alkyllithiums, cuprates and alkylcoppers, with a-haloimines gave selectively a variety of synthetically useful reactions, including coupling to 1,4-diimines, homologation, and production of heterocycles.