The addition of hydrogen-nitrogen bonds to carbon multiple bonds is an important reaction in organic synthesis, and here Laurel Schafter and Rashidat Oyinla from the University of British Columbia in Canada, use a transition metal catalyst to create five-membered N,O-chelating complexes.
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Intermolecular hydroamination of oxygen-substituted allenes. New routes for the synthesis of N,O-chelated zirconium and titanium amido complexes
Rashidat O. Ayinla and Laurel L. Schafer
Dalton Trans., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10448A
