Iron-catalyzed intermolecular cycloaddition of diazo surrogates with hexahydro-1,3,5-triazines

Org Biomol Chem. 2017 Sep 26;15(37):7743-7746. doi: 10.1039/c7ob02115a.

Abstract

We report here an unprecedented iron-catalyzed cycloaddition reaction of diazo surrogates with hexahydro-1,3,5-triazines, providing five-membered heterocycles in moderate to high yields under mild reaction conditions. This cycloaddition features C-N and C-C bond formation using a cheap iron catalyst. Importantly, different to our former report on a gold-catalyzed system, both donor/donor and donor/acceptor diazo substrates are tolerated in this iron-catalyzed protocol.