Abstract
Compared to other nitrogen heterocycles such as aziridines, pyrrolidines,
or piperidines, the chemistry of azetidines is much less developed,
probably because of their limited availability. In this account,
recent synthetic routes to these strained heterocycles starting
from readily available enantiomerically pure starting compounds
will be detailed. The ring strain in these heterocycles makes them
excellent candidates for nucleophilic ring-opening or ring-expansion
reactions yielding higher ring systems or highly substituted acyclic
amines. These useful transformations will be described in the second
section of this account.
1 Introduction
1.1 Synthesis of Azetidines from β-Amino Alcohols
2 Synthetic Transformation of 2-Cyanoazetidines
3 Ring Expansion of Functionalized Azetidines
3.1 Ring Expansion to Pyrrolidines
3.2 Ring Expansion to Azepanes
4 Ring Opening of Azetidines and Azetidinium Ions
5 Reactivity of Azetidinium Ylides
6 Synthetic Applications
7 Concluding Remarks
Key words
azetidines - nitrogen heterocycles - ring expansion - ring opening - chirality
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