A rhodium-catalyzed coupling cyclization of isocyanides with 2-azidophenyloxyacrylates has
been developed for the first time. This reaction allows divergent syntheses of two significant …

A straightforward synthesis of aryl aziridines is reported from readily available azides and
alkenes and using technical solvents in the presence of air. This methodology does not …

Three-membered heterocycles, such as epoxides and aziridines, are “spring-loaded” for ring
opening and thus undergo facile conversion into open-chain and cyclic derivatives. This …

Recently, nicotinoyl nitrene (2) has been generated from the photodecomposition of
nicotinoyl azide (1) and used as the key intermediate in probing nucleobase solvent …

Significance: The reactivity of aryl azido vinylogous carbonates under thermal or transition-
metal-promoted conditions was explored. The azide insertion products were a variety of bi …