Use of β-Amido Allylboronate as a Nucleophilic Reagent in Catalytic Amide Allylation of N-Carbonyl Imides
Tetsuya Sengoku, Yuta Kamiya, Ai Kawakami, Masaki Takahashi and Hidemi Yoda
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2017, 6096-6098. (DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201701112)

β-Amido allylboronates showed sufficient nucleophilicity toward imides in the presence of catalytic zinc bromide and basic additives, affording excellent yields of azaspiro-γ-lactones through a ring opening-reclosure process on a gram scale.

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