A convenient method for the synthesis of β-chloroamines by electrophilic reduction of α-chloroimines

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4020(01)86404-8

α-Chloro-, α,α-dichloro- and α,α,α-trichloroimines were conveniently reduced by borane-methyl sulfide in dichloromethane into the corresponding β-chloroamines. This synthetic procedure was applied to the synthesis of N-(4-methoxyphenyl)-[2,2,2-trichloro-1