[3+2] Cycloadditions and nucleophilic additions of aziridines under C-C and C-N bond cleavage

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4020(97)00951-4

Under PET conditions (photoinduced electron transfer) aziridines react with dipolarophiles in a [3+2] cycloaddition to form five-membered heterocycles. In this study we used mono- and disubstituted N-alkyl and N-arylaziridines. We noticed that the radical