Dutt-Wormall Reaction

P. K. Dutt, H. R. Whitehead, A. Wormall, J. Chem. Soc. 119, 2088 (1921); P. K. Dutt, ibid. 125, 1463 (1924).

Preparation of diazoaminosulfinates by reaction of diazonium salts with aryl- or alkylsulfonamides followed by alkaline hydrolysis to yield the corresponding sulfinic acid of the sulfonamide, and the azide:



H. Bretschneider, H. Rager, Monatsh. 81. 970 (1950); I. G. Laing, Rodd's Chemistry of Compounds IIIC, 107 (1973); C. Grundmann, Houben-Weyl 10/3, 808 (1965).