Joey and Phil's alpha-amination preprint is just out on chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…. Congrats! and a super interesting mechanism too...
chemrxiv.org Direct alpha-Amination of Amides and Lactams Enabled by the (3+2) Vinyl Azide-Enolate Cycloaddition... Direct alpha-amination of carbonyl compounds remains an important yet synthetically challenging transformation. Here we report a solution for direct alpha-amination of amides and lactams, identified... 