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sulfur ylide alternative for aziridine

smartgene1 - 23-4-2017 at 04:05

Is there any alternative reagent to form aziridine from imine

clearly_not_atara - 23-4-2017 at 19:50

What's wrong with sulfur ylides?

I've heard of other reagents but they're all much scarier. For example diazoacetate (toxic, explosive) can be used as a masked dihydrocarbene (H2C: ) source:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chun-Gu_Xia/publication...

[Edited on 24-4-2017 by clearly_not_atara]