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Cyanide-Free Synthesis of Air Stable N-Substituted Li and K Cyanamide Salts from Tetrazoles. Applications toward the Synthesis of Primary and Secondary Cyanamides as Precursors to Amidines
Duchamp, Edouard,Hanessian, Stephen
supporting information, p. 8487 - 8491 (2020/11/12)
A practical two-step synthesis of N,N′-disubstituted cyanamides consists in the low-temperature metalation of N-substituted 5H-tetrazoles that undergo spontaneous cycloreversion at 0 °C releasing dinitrogen, and forming N-metalated cyanamides that can be reacted in situ with a variety of electrophiles. Remarkably, the N-substituted Li and K cyanamides are air stable white solids at room temperature. Addition of lithium organometallics to the N,N′-disubstituted cyanamides provides a new method for accessing N,N′-disubstituted amidines.
