Shi Y, Zhang J, Grazier N, Stein PD, Atwal KS, Traeger SC, Callahan SP, Malley MF, Galella MA, Gougoutas JZ. One-Pot Synthesis and Conformational Features of N,N‘-Disubstituted Ketene Aminals.
J Org Chem 2003;
69:188-91. [PMID:
14703396 DOI:
10.1021/jo0352528]
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Abstract
N,N'-Disubstituted ketene aminals are bioisosteres of thioureas and are useful building blocks in many synthetic operations. A convenient one-pot synthesis of N,N'-disubstituted ketene aminals from activated methylene compounds and isothiocyanates is described. Most of these aminals exist in rotameric equilibrium around the central C=C bonds in solution, and the rotamers are stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonding both in solution and in solid states.
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