Fauché Kévin, Nauton Lionel, Jouffret Laurent, Cisnetti Federico, Gautier Arnaud
Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Sigma Clermont, ICCF, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Feb 16;53(15):2402-2405. doi: 10.1039/c6cc09160a.
N-(2-Azidophenyl)azolium salts were easily prepared and reacted with copper(i) under conditions allowing the formation of NHC complexes. Under these conditions, the formation of benzimidazo-fused heterocycles occurred under catalytic, efficient and very mild conditions. This reaction is proposed to proceed via dinitrogen elimination and imido/nitrene-NHC cyclization.