Radical azidation reactions and their application in the synthesis of alkaloids

Lapointe, Guillaume ; Kapat, Ajoy ; Weidner, Karin ; Renaud, Philippe

In: Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2012, vol. 84, no. 7, p. 1633-1641

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    Summary
    Recent advances in radical azidation using sulfonyl azides are presented. For instance, radical carboazidation using α-iodoketones, desulfitative carboazidation, and anti-Markovnikov hydroazidation of alkenes are described. These novel methods tolerate a large number of functional groups and allow the synthesis of organic azides that would be difficult to synthesize otherwise. The transformation of the azides using reductive processes as well as a Schmidt reaction under nonacidic conditions were used to synthesize alkaloids including indolizidine 167B, monomorine I, cylindricine C, and lepadiformine C