Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5275624 Tetrahedron Letters 2011 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

When benzylamines having a chloroacetylene moiety were heated in wet toluene with a catalytic amount of rhodium trifluoroacetate dimer, intramolecular debenzylative cyclization took place to give butyrolactams. This method is a new entry to selective debenzylation of amines.

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