Direct imidation of lactones via catalytic oxo/imido heterometathesis.

Andrey V Rumyantsev Andrey V Pichugov Nikolai S BushkovDmitry Yu AleshinTatyana V StrelkovaOlga L LependinaPavel A Zhizhko Dmitry N Zarubin

Published in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2021)

We report the first examples of direct imidation of lactones giving the corresponding cyclic imidates via oxo/imido heterometathesis with N-sulfinylamines catalysed by a well-defined silica-supported Ti imido complex.

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