Carbenes and nitrenes: recent developments in fundamental chemistry

C Wentrup - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Carbenes and nitrenes can exist in both singlet and triplet states, sometimes equally stable
and interconverting either thermally or photochemically. Many carbene and nitrene reactions …

Flash vacuum pyrolysis of azides, triazoles, and tetrazoles

C Wentrup - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Flash vacuum pyrolysis (FVP) of azides is an extremely valuable method of generating
nitrenes and studying their thermal rearrangements. The nitrenes can in many cases be …

[HTML][HTML] Reactive & efficient: Organic azides as cross-linkers in material sciences

M Schock, S Bräse - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The exceptional reactivity of the azide group makes organic azides a highly versatile family
of compounds in chemistry and the material sciences. One of the most prominent reactions …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanochemical reactions studied by in situ Raman spectroscopy: base catalysis in liquid-assisted grinding

M Tireli, MJ Kulcsár, N Cindro, D Gracin… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Mechanochemical reactions studied by in situ Raman spectroscopy: base catalysis in liquid-assisted
grinding - Chemical Communications (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C5CC01915J Royal …

Light-activated chemical probing of nucleobase solvent accessibility inside cells

C Feng, D Chan, J Joseph, M Muuronen… - Nature chemical …, 2018 - nature.com
The discovery of functional RNAs that are critical for normal and disease physiology
continues to expand at a breakneck pace. Many RNA functions are controlled by the …

A DFT Study on the Mechanism of Rh2II,II‐Catalyzed Intramolecular Amidation of Carbamates

X Lin, C Zhao, CM Che, Z Ke… - Chemistry–An Asian …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The potential‐energy surfaces of the reactions of dirhodium tetracarboxylate (Rh2II, II)
catalyzed nitrene (NR) insertion into C H bonds were examined by a DFT computational …

A comparison of acetyl-and methoxycarbonylnitrenes by computational methods and a laser flash photolysis study of benzoylnitrene

J Liu, S Mandel, CM Hadad… - The Journal of Organic …, 2004 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory (DFT), CCSD (T), and CBS-QB3 calculations were performed to
understand the chemical and reactivity differences between acetylnitrene (CH3C (O) N) and …

DFT Studies on the Mechanism of the Rhodium(III)-Catalyzed C–H Activation of N-Phenoxyacetamide

J Li, Z Qiu - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
A density functional theory (DFT) study has been conducted to elucidate the mechanism of
the rhodium (III)-catalyzed C–H activation of N-phenoxyacetamide, where the amido …

Tautomerism and thermal decomposition of tetrazole: high-level ab initio study

VG Kiselev, PB Cheblakov… - The Journal of Physical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The mutual interconversion and decomposition reactions of four tetrazole isomers (1H-TZ,
2H-TZ, 5H-TZ, and an N-heterocyclic carbene 14H) have been studied theoretically using …

Visible light sensitization of benzoyl azides: cascade cyclization toward oxindoles via a non-nitrene pathway

DB Bagal, SW Park, HJ Song, S Chang - Chemical Communications, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Visible light sensitization of benzoyl azides was examined in reaction with N-
phenylmethacrylamides to afford biologically important oxindoles and spirooxindoles via a …