Amidinyl radicals: New and useful intermediates for the synthesis of imidazolines and imidazoles

Dominique Gennet (1) , Samir Z. Zard (1) , Haiwen Zhang (1)

1 DCSO - Laboratoire de synthèse organique

Amidinyl radicals are readily generated from amidoxime benzoates by treatment with a stannane-diazo initiator or with Ni-AcOH and captured by an internal olefin to give the corresponding imidazoline.

Dominique Gennet, Samir Z. Zard, Haiwen Zhang. Amidinyl radicals: New and useful intermediates for the synthesis of imidazolines and imidazoles. Chemical Communications, 2003, 9 (15), pp.1870-1871. ⟨10.1039/B304545E⟩. ⟨hal-00954827⟩